🎥20 February 1998. Venice in Movie Series.
Dangerous Beauty an American biographical drama film directed by Marshall Herskovitz and starring Catherine McCormack, Rufus Sewell, and Oliver Platt is released.
Entirely filmed in #Italy and mainly in Venice, the movie is based on the non-fiction book The Honest Courtesan by Margaret Rosenthal, about Veronica Franco, a courtesan in sixteenth-century Venice who becomes a hero to her city, but later the target of an inquisition by the Church for witchcraft.

#VeronicaFranco (1546–1591) was in fact a courtesan and a poet, known for her notable clientele, feminist advocacy, literary contributions, and philanthropy. Her humanist education and cultural contributions influenced the roles of Courtesans in the late Venetian #Renaissance.

#20February #VeniceMovies #VeniceHistory
Here's the Trailer👇

https://youtu.be/xYu37jF0d3c