So sweet and delicious do I become, when I am in bed with a man who, I sense, loves and enjoys me, that the pleasure I bring excels all delight, so the knot of love, however tight it seemed before, is tied tighter still.

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.