![]() The Fourth Ottoman–Venetian War (1570–73) breaks out, and the city appeals to France for aid. Nevertheless, she spends a great deal of time with Marco, neglecting her business and ignoring her mother's warnings that such a relationship is dangerous for her. They rekindle their romance, but Veronica refuses to stop seeing clients and accept his support. After Marco's cousin Maffio, a poor bard who was once publicly upstaged by Veronica, attacks her, Marco rushes to her aid. Marco finds it difficult to adjust to his new wife, who is nothing like Veronica, and becomes jealous as she takes his friends and relatives as lovers. Veronica quickly gains a reputation as a top courtesan, impressing the powerful men of Venice with her beauty, wit, and compassion. At first Veronica is repelled by the idea, but once she discovers that courtesans are allowed access to libraries and education, she tentatively embraces the idea. Rather than go to a convent, Veronica's mother suggests she become a courtesan, a highly paid, cultured prostitute like her mother and grandmother before her. Veronica's mother plans for her family's financial security, as she still requires dowries for her younger daughters and money for her son's commission. Her lover Marco, who will be a Senator like his father, cannot marry her because her family is too poor he marries a foreign noblewoman instead. Veronica Franco is an adventurous, curious, slightly tomboyish young woman in Venice.
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