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Veronica Franco was an Italian poet and courtesan in 16th-century Venice.

✵ 1546 – 22. July 1591
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Veronica Franco Quotes

“So sweet and delicious do I become,
when I am in bed with a man
who, I sense, loves and enjoys me,
that the pleasure I bring excels all delight,
so the knot of love, however tight
it seemed before, is tied tighter still.”

Veronica Franco

Source: Poems and Selected Letters

Love , Pleasure , Sense

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