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- Title
De expósitos, genoveses, hechicería, y clausura: la vida de la cortesana Prudencia Grillo.
- Authors
Melián, Elvira M.
- Abstract
We cover Prudencia Grillo's life, as a conducting thread of the courtesan social portrait and its relation to Spanish society during The Golden Siècle. Born as a natural child, she held illicit relationships with Genovese men, became herself mother of a natural child and was imprisoned by the Santo Oficio for sorcery, before finishing her days in the convent la Visitación, later named Santa Isabel La Real in Madrid, which she founded in 1589 at the age of 41. She was able to simultaneously interact with both contemporary influential personages of the Court -linked as she was during all her life with the flourishing Genovese colony under the Austrias and the lowest rank of her acquaintances. In this context of light and shadow her legacy extends beyond the limits of her individual achievements and personal social ascription, as she has contributed to define the courtesan collective and allowed to penetrate into our social "inside history" during the 16th and 17th centuries.
- Subjects
SPAIN; COURTESANS; COURTS &; courtiers; FOUNDLINGS; SPANISH Inquisition, 1478-1820; NOBILITY (Social class); CONVENTS; ASCRIBED status
- Publication
Tiempos Modernos, 2017, Vol 8, Issue 35, p257
- ISSN
1699-7778
- Publication type
Article