“Good evening, soldiers of Spain. You have come a long way, and you are welcome to our great city.” Her voice was strong and her vocabulary honed on a generous handful of Spanish merchants and itinerant clerics. A good courtesan can seduce in many languages, and Rome had trained the best of them. “Where is your captain?”
i have been reading “In the Company of The Courtesan” by Sarah Dunant. Fiammetta Bianchini is a professional courtesan in Rome in 1527, the story begins as Rome is being overrun by Martin Luthers Protestants. Fiammetta and her loyal dwarf Bucino are making haste to prepare the house as the Pope goes into hiding and Rome burns around them.
Fiammetta is a Courtesan, her clients include a Cardinal (this was before the church embraced celibacy), prominent business men and artists. A Courtesan’s focus was on pleasing those who visited, she was the ultimate hostess, serving sumptuous meals, entertaining her guest with music and tricks and most importantly…. she was a SLUT of the highest class! Schooled in every form of lovemaking one could think of and many that i never heard of before, she invited different Men nightly into her bed and they all enjoyed her charms immensely.
To prepare for the invasion and fall of Rome Fiammetta did not bolt her windows, but prepared the finest meal, laid our her best wine, put on her sexiest gown and most sultry perfume. When the a group of Spanish soldiers approached, she called out to them offering her bed and hospitality to the leader.
…”I am the captain,” he said in a thick voice, while behind him the men whooped and snorted. “And you must be the pope’s whore.”
He was almost upon her now. She didn’t move, simply drew herself up a little higher, until she had maybe two inches on him “The whores, sir, you have already had. This is the house of Fiammetta Bianchini. It offers food and lodging for the men who have not yet tasted true Roman hospitality.”
Doing the captain saved her house for a time, till Rome fell to ruin and some Lutheran woman ran off any men looking for sex!
Reading about Fiammetta is often like glancing into that pond that is still and then something unseen creates the tiniest ripple making the image waver in the sunlight. Am i a Courtesan of some sort? Can there be Courtesans in the 21st Century? Is a submissive a Courtesan or is a Courtesan a submissive – are they interchangeable the only variation the century? Maybe i will change my name to katie the courtesan!
I think in this day and time a Courtesan can be submissive or Domme. Or even a switch. Whatever pleases her. Either way she is using men and well thats hot!