Editing Veronica Franco (section)

==Posthumous reception==
In the 1974 film "Sex Through the Ages" (originally titled "On the Game"), Louise Pajo played the part of Veronica Franca, a 16th century Venetian prostitute.  In the film she appears in two scenes.  One in which she seduces the homosexual King of France, Henry III; and another in which she is a sufferer of syphilis.

Franco's life was recorded in the 1992 book ''[[The Honest Courtesan]]'' by US author Margaret F. Rosenthal.<ref>Rosenthal, Margaret F. [http://dornsife.usc.edu/veronica-franco/the-honest-courtesan/ The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130913024810/http://dornsife.usc.edu/veronica-franco/the-honest-courtesan/ |date=2013-09-13 }} Chicago,1992.</ref>

[[Catherine McCormack]] portrayed Veronica Franco in the 1998 movie ''[[Dangerous Beauty]],'' released as ''A Destiny of Her Own'' in some countries, based on Rosenthal's book.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dangerous Beauty |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118892/ |website=IMDb}}{{rs|date=July 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Dangerous Beauty Release Info |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118892/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_dt_rdat |website=IMDb}}{{rs|date=July 2022}}</ref>

In the 2000s Franco prompted scholarly inquiries on "what it meant to be a public woman in Cinquecento Venice".<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Wojciehowski|first=Dolora Chapelle|date=Fall–Winter 2006|title=Veronica Franco vs. Maffio Venier: Sex, Death, and Poetry in Cinquecento Venice |journal=Italica |volume=83 |issue=3/4 |pages=367–390|jstor=27669097}}</ref> This directly pertained to her duality of both a courtesan and a published poet. Franco is referenced to have been a "living performance of public art—a renowned courtesan whose body was available to a certain exclusive clientele, a published author, and a public presence."<ref name=":0" />
Franco's literary work demonstrates her ability to defend women, as a whole, in a format that can be studied and understood as ahead of her time. Franco's work fearlessly embarked on juxtaposed realms such as sexuality and women's agency as a whole. In doing so, she challenged and disrupted the patriarchal norms that surrounded her.

Franco is also portrayed in the 2012 Serbian novel named after her ({{langx|sr|Штампар и Вероника}}) authored by Serbian writer Katarina Brajović.<ref>{{cite press release | url=http://www.politika.rs/rubrike/Kultura/Zivot-za-knjigu-u-lepoj-Veneciji.lt.html | title=Život za knjigu u lepoj Veneciji | publisher=Politika | date=November 28, 2012 | access-date=February 21, 2013|quote=Pesnikinja Veronika Franko zaista je postojala, njeno delo se i danas smatra interesantnim, a pisala je rime o svojim ljubavnicima. Njenoj biografiji dodala sam detalje koji su bili važni u kreiranju dramske strukture romana.}}</ref>

In 2013, her work was interpreted as adopting "a position of public authority that calls attention to her education, her rhetorical skill, and the solidarity she feels with women."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dornsife.usc.edu/veronica-franco/the-woman/|title=The Woman|author=Margaret Rosenthal |date=2013|website=Veronica Franco Project|access-date=2019-12-15}}</ref> She embodied in writing a duality, toggling between and addressing both private and public life matters. Her publications have allowed her work and proto-feminist efforts to transcend time.