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
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