I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.

By the 1570s Veronica Franco belonged to one of the more prestigious literary circles in the city participating in discussions and contributing to and editing anthologies of poetry. Veronica Franco: Donna poetessa e cortigiana del Rinascimento. Rosenthal Margaret F.

Veronica Franco (1546–1591) was an Italian poet and courtesan in 16th-century Venice.