Dangerous Beauty

“Born without privilege. Bound by tradition. She found the courage to follow her heart.”

Veronica Franco (Catherine McCormack) is quick, well read and beautiful, and in sixteenth-century Venice none of it counts for much because she has no money. The aristocrat she loves, Marco Venier (Rufus Sewell), cannot marry a girl of her standing, so her mother teaches her the courtesan's trade. Marshall Herskovitz sets her among the city's wealthiest men, Veronica in silk, learning what her wit is worth to them.