Dangerous Beauty (1998) Part 8/11

Dangerous Beauty is a biographical drama film directed by Marshall Herskovitz.

It is adapted from the non-fiction book "The Honest Courtesan", by Margaret Rosenthal about the life of Veronica Franco, a courtesan in 16th century Venice, who - during the days of Venice's glory - is spurned by her true love because she does not have a proper dowry to appease his family. With no other alternative, she becomes a courtesan, an occupation legally permitted to women of a certain rank. With her looks and wit, she quickly becomes the most sought after courtesan in Italy, but still cannot overcome the societal restrictions that keeps her apart from her true love.

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Entertainment

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• Biography
• Drama
• Romance
• Veronica Franco
• Marco Venier
• Venice
• 16th century
• Marshall Herskovitz
• Margaret Rosenthal
• Jeannine Dominy
• Catherine McCormack
• Rufus Sewell
• Oliver Platt
• Fred Ward
• Naomi Watts
• Moira Kelly
• Jacqueline Bisset
• Jeroen Krabbé
• Joanna Cassidy
• Melina Kanakaredes
• Daniel Lapaine
• Justine Miceli
• Jake Weber
• Simon Dutton
• Grant Russell
• Peter Eyre
• Carla Cassola
• Gianni Musy
• Michael Culkin
• Ralph Riach
• Charlotte Randle
• Alberto Rossatti

[Razza1941]

Nothing worse than an Italian man's jealousy, I know this for a fact cuz I'm married to one.

[nursefuzzywuzzy]

I don't think She spanked him , King Henry the III of France Was Rumored to be Homo or Bisexual. I think it was something else she did to him.

[ers123gh]

@chase82 what makes you think that?

[ers123gh]

@TheNuharoo they portrayed them acurately by all accounts, the church was an extremely powerful and corrupt body and rather than using this power to educate, they used it to prejudice everyone against weaker minority groups.

[TheNuharoo]

@lepsychokaybird Excellent point!

[lepsychokaybird]

@TheNuharoo I don't think it's so much portraying them negatively as showing the general climate of the time period in the point of view of less Christian, more open-minded characters living back then and how they would see Christians.

[TheNuharoo]

@chase82 It's a pity that they portrayed these Christians so negatively.

[chase82]

They sure made him into something he was not along with the whole history of this period in Venice. Shame on those responsible for their bias.

[chase82]

The man Henry called a zealot was, I believe, the animal lover st francis of assisi who wrote the Canticle of the Sun. It was one of the first works of literature, if not the first, written in the Italian language.

[WayToSaveTheWorld]

@nursefuzzywuzzy My bad...

[astridbelge]

veronica is the face that launches 100 French ships :)

[VivaLaVerde]

a few days don't change everything, marco. she's still a courtesan.