I often get asked “Where do you get your ideas from?” Actually, I waited for years for my first good idea to come along. Finally, when I was about fifty, I stumbled across the story of Veronica Franco, a poet and “intellectual courtesan” in 16th-century Venice . . . Were there any courtesans in papal Avignon, a city equal in splendour to Venice? . . . read more
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- My good pal, @JenSookfongLee, has hit it out of the park with this dazzling new memoir. Congratulations, Jen! Ex… https://t.co/rkiLy0xm3e about 1 year ago from Twitter for iPad