BOOKS: The Book of the Courtesans

From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Wed Feb 06 2002 - 12:07:57 MST


                   The Book of the Courtesans
                  A Catalogue of their Virtues
                          Susan Griffin
                       ISBN 0-7679-0450-8
                           U.S. $24.95

Susan Griffin's fascinating account of the courtesans, women with
great power in a time when most women had none.

Not just the courtesans and their lives, but the lives of their
patrons, their times and even their methods.

Wonderfull stories of Paris during the Belle Epoque, Venice during
the Cinquecento, philosophers, poets, painters, and politicians.

And I'm barely halfway through.

Brian

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