Wednesday, March 2nd, 4:00-6:30 pm in the Commons 3C the LWGRC, the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and the Italian Club will host a screening for our Ciao MC! series. Join us to watch Dangerous Beauty, the movie adaptation of the life of Veronica Franco, a celebrated Venetian courtesan of the 1500s. In the movie, Veronica Franco is a young woman who cannot marry her love interest because she is from a lower social class. Early Modern Europe offered few options to women: convent or marriage. If a young woman was too poor to have a dowry and get married, it was a common practice to be sent to a convent. Veronica chooses instead to become a courtesan, a highly paid, cultured sex worker.
Before the movie, Dr. Luisanna Sardu (MLL) will briefly talk about women’s social role in 1500s Venice and Franco’s work, which paved the way for female authors during the early modern period.
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