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Lynne Lawner will discuss the "splendors and miseries" of Renaissance Italian courtesans, major figures in the cultural and social life of the era, above all in Rome and Venice. Muses and models for great writers and artists, they were noted for their own poetry, musical talent, and conversation.
Speaker: Lynne Lawner
Independent Scholar
Author, Lives of the Courtesans: Portraits of the Renaissance and Harlequin on the Moon: Commedia dell'Arte and the Visual Arts; Editor of Antonio Gramsci's Letters From Prison