#cortesan

[vicktrolia]

My new DND character is a rogue tiefling. Also I'm a cortesan.

This is gonna be fun

[leftrightloveright]

[bigpapamark]

The Old Cortesan by Rodin

Heinlein mentioned it in Time Enough For Love

“Anyone can see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl she used to be. A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is … and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be … more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo see that this lovely young girl is still alive, prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart.”

[theshoegirldiaries]

[juggernauette]

Jigoku Dayu (Hell's Courtesan) by Kawanabe Kyosai

[lysistrat89]

Renaissance Venice recongnized two types of cortesans, the cortigiana onesta, the intellectual cortesan, and the cortigiana de lume, the common cortesan on par with today's hookers. Veronica was possibly Venice' most famous cortigiana onesta and a hell of a poet.

"When we too are armed and trained, we can convince men that we have hands, feet, and a heart like yours; and although we may be delicate and soft, some men who are delicate are also strong; and others, coarse and harsh, are cowards. Women have not yet realized this, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death; and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow."