Notes and comments on the “Catalogo di tutte le principal et più honorate Cortigiane di Venetia”
The “Catalogo di tutte le principal et più honorate Cortigiane di Venetia” is a list of some 212 prostitutes, where they lived, and their prices.
THIS IS THE CATALOGUE of all the principal and most honoured Courtesans of Venice …
QUESTO SI È IL CATALOGO di tutte le principal et più honorate Cortigiane di Venetia
On March 18, 1618, the Collegio received Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639), the ambassador of the King of Great Britain to the Republic of Venice, who had a rather odd request.
A book without an author, paid for by a Count of Oxford, who didn’t exist — still it’s useful.
The Republic of Venice never had an actual formal constitution, much less a written constitution. Neither did it have any kind of foundational event.
In ancient Venice prostitution was considered a necessary evil, where more harm would come from a ban than from a de facto acceptance