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The Business of Prostitution in Early Renaissance Venice*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Paula C. Clarke
Paula C. Clarke*
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McGill University
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Abstract

Between 1360 and 1460 the Venetian government established a system of legalized prostitution under the supervision of government officials and confined, in theory, to a limited area of the city. The authorities also attempted to concentrate the management of licit brothels in the hands of women, who thereby emerged as the effective entrepreneurs of the sex trade. This article describes the organization of Venetian prostitution in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries and the relations among government officials, brothel-keepers, and prostitutes. It illustrates the mechanisms of debt and credit used in the sex trade, which often kept the prostitutes subservient to the brothel-keepers and to their other creditors. An effort is made to assess the degree to which sex workers might become integrated into local society and to suggest the general trends in Venetian policy toward prostitution into the sixteenth century.

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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 68 , Issue 2 , Summer 2015 , pp. 419 - 464
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 2015

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Thanks are due to Elisabetta Barile and Edoardo Giuffrida for their assistance at various stages of this article.

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ASV, Senato, Deliberazioni, Misti, registri 52, 53, 58. Cited as ASV, Sen., Misti, with the number of the register.Google Scholar
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Allerston, Patricia. “Reconstructing the Second-Hand Clothes Trade in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Venice.” Costume: The Journal of the Costume Society 33 (1999): 46–56.10.1179/cos.1999.33.1.46CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Chambers, David, and Brian Pullan, eds. Venice: A Documentary History. Toronto, 2001.Google Scholar
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Cohen, Elizabeth. “Seen and Known: Prostitutes in the Cityscape of Late Sixteenth-Century Rome.” Renaissance Studies 12 (1998): 392–409.10.1111/j.1477-4658.1998.tb00050.xCrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Thornton, Peter. The Italian Renaissance Interior, 1400–1600. New York, 1991.Google Scholar
Trexler, Richard. “La Prostitution florentine au XVe siècle: patronages et clientèles.” Annales, E.S.C. 36 (1981): 983–1015.Google Scholar
Varholy, Cristine. “‘Rich like a lady’: Cross-Class Dressing in the Brothels and Theatres of Early Modern London.” Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 8 (2008): 4–34.10.2979/JEM.2008.8.1.4CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Vianello, Andrea. “Storia sociale della calzatura.” In Storia d’Italia. Annali 19, La moda. ed. C. M. Belfanti and F. Giusberti, 627–66. Turin, 2003.Google Scholar