Title: Veronica Franco
Content:  Veronica Franco (1546–1591) was an Italian poet and courtesan in 16th-century Venice. She is renowned for her notable clientele, feminist advocacy, literary contributions, and philanthropy. Her humanist education and surviving cultural contributions make Veronica Franco a compelling case study for the accomplishments of Courtesans in the late Venetian Renaissance. In her notable works, Capitoli in Terze rime and Lettere familiari a diversi ("Familiar Letters to Various People"), Franco uses perceived virtue, reason, and fairness to advise male patricians and other associates. Her writings serve as a display of her intellect and social connections. She was able to exercise greater autonomy in her authorship than other traditional Venetian woman due to her established reputation and influence.
Title: Veronica Franco
Content:  access to a Domenico Venier, a patron and advisor to women writers. She was able to use her education to contributed considerably to literary and artistic outlets. Franco learned additional skills from her mother, Paola Fracassa, who had an interest in finding suitable clients for her, as well as marrying her off. While still in her teens, Franco was briefly married to a mature, wealthy physician named Paolo Panizza. She supported her children along with a household of tutors and servants for most of her life. In order to support herself, Franco turned to serving as a cortigiana to wealthy men. She quickly rose through the ranks 
Title: Veronica Franco
Content:  was listed in the Catalogo de tutte le principal et più honorate cortigiane di Venetia (Catalog of all the Principal and most Honored Courtesans of Venice), which gave the names, addresses, and fees of Venice's most prominent prostitutes; her mother was listed as the person to whom the fee should be paid (her "go-between"). From extant records, we know that, by the time she was 18, Franco had been briefly married and had given birth to her first child; she would eventually have six children, three of whom died in infancy. By the 1570s, she belonged to one of the more prestigious literary circles in the city, 
Title: Veronica Franco
Content:  consort with some of the leading patricians in Venice and even had a 10-day liaison with Henry III, King of France. Franco was listed as one of the foremost courtesans of Venice in the Catalogo de tutte le principal et più honorate cortigiane di Venetia (published about 1565). Franco wrote two volumes of poetry: Terze rime in 1575 and Lettere familiari a diversi in 1580. She published books of letters and collected the works of other leading writers into anthologies. Successful in her two lines of work, Franco also founded a charity for courtesans and their children. In 1565, when she was about 20 years old, Veronica 
Title: Veronica Franco
Content:  Veronica Franco was born to a family in the Cittadini class. She developed her position in Renaissance Venetian society as a cortigiana onesta (Honored Courtesan), who were intellectual sex workers that derived their position in society from refinement and cultural prowess. They served in contrast to other sex workers such as cortigiana di lume or meretrice ('harlots'), who were lower-class prostitutes that tended to live and practice their trade near the Rialto Bridge. Franco received a respectable humanistic education at a young age from her brother's tutor, an unusual opportunity for Venetian women. She continued her education by mixing with learned men, writers, and painters. This granted 
Title: Veronica Franco
Content:  in discussions and contributing to and editing anthologies of poetry. As one of the più honorate cortigiane in a wealthy and cosmopolitan city, Franco lived well for much of her working life, but without the automatic protection accorded to "respectable" women, she had to make her own way. She studied and sought patrons among the learned. In 1575, during the epidemic of plague that ravaged the city, Franco was forced to leave Venice and lost much of her wealth when her house and possessions were looted. Upon her return in 1577, she defended herself with dignity before the Inquisition on charges of witchcraft, a common complaint lodged 
Title: Veronica Franco
Content:  format that can be studied and understood as ahead of her time. Franco's work fearlessly embarked on juxtaposed realms such as sexuality and women's agency as a whole. In doing so, she challenged and disrupted the patriarchal norms that surrounded her. Franco is also portrayed in the 2012 Serbian novel named after her (Штампар и Вероника) authored by Serbian writer Katarina Brajović. In 2013, her work was interpreted as adopting “a position of public authority that calls attention to her education, her rhetorical skill, and the solidarity she feels with women." She embodied in writing a duality, toggling between and addressing both private and public life matters. Her publications have allowed her work and proto-feminist efforts to transcend time.
Title: Veronica Franco
Content:  Franco's life was recorded in the 1992 book The Honest Courtesan, by US author Margaret F. Rosenthal. Catherine McCormack portrayed Veronica Franco in the 1998 movie Dangerous Beauty released as A Destiny of Her Own in some countries, based on Rosenthal's book. In the 2000s Franco prompted scholarly inquiries on “what it meant to be a public woman in Cinquecento Venice”. This directly pertained to her duality of both a courtesan and a published poet. Franco is referenced to have been a “living performance of public art—a renowned courtesan whose body was available to a certain exclusive clientele, a published author, and a public presence.” Franco's literary work demonstrates her ability to defend women kind, as a whole, in 
Title: Veronica Franco
Content: sample of poems and letters by Veronica Franco 2013 Veronica Franco Project, USC Dornsife. ; portraits, attributed to Tintoretto 2013 Veronica Franco Project, USC Dornsife.. ; Michael Asimow, Dangerous Beauty: The Trial of a Courtesan UCLA Law School, (May 1998). ; Rosenthal, Margaret F., "Veronica Franco's Terze Rime (1575):[ The Venetian Courtesan's Defense" https://web.archive.org/web/20060526064853/http://www.rsa.org/rq.htm] Renaissance Quarterly 42:2 (Summer 1989) 227-257 ; Adler, Sara Maria. "Veronica Franco's Petrarchan Terze rime: Subverting the Master's Plan," Italica 65: 3 (1988): 213–33. ; Diberti-Leigh, Marcella. Veronica Franco: Donna, poetessa e cortigiana del Rinascimento. Ivrea, Italy, 1988. ; Jones, Ann R. The Currency of Eros: Women's Love Lyric in Europe, 1540–1620. Bloomington and Indianapolis, Ind., 1990. ; Phillipy, Patricia. "'Altera Dido': The Model of Ovid's Heroides in the Poems of Gaspara Stampa and Veronica Franco," Italica 69 (1992): 1-18. ; Stefano Bianchi, La scrittura poetica femminile nel Cinquecento veneto: Gaspara Stampa e Veronica Franco, Manziana: Vecchiarelli, 2013. ISBN: 978-88-8247-337-2 
Title: Veronica Franco
Content:  courtesans in those days. The charges were dropped. There is evidence that her connections among the Venetian nobility helped in her acquittal. Her later life is largely obscure, though surviving records suggest that although she won her freedom, she lost all of her material goods and wealth. Eventually, her last major benefactor died and left her with no financial support. There is little information for her life after 1580. Records suggest that she was less prosperous in her later years, but was not living in poverty. However, she published no more writings. Although her fate is largely uncertain, she is believed to have died in relative poverty.

Question: What is Veronica Franco's occupation?
Answer: poet.
poetess.
bard.