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  • Domenico Puligo's Portrait of a Lady called Barbara Salutati, 1524.
    Renaissance Women: The Music of Courtesans
    LuAnn Johnson
    Before they were tragic characters in nineteenth-century opera, courtesans were the original Renaissance women: highly educated, socially refined, independent figures with significant literary, artistic, and musical training. This hour on Harmonia, we’ll explore the sound world of courtesans / from sixteenth-century Venice to Qing dynasty China and beyond.