'Cause, y'know, there just wasn't enough Inara. :-)
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azuredflame. The Italian literally translates to "honest courtesan," also the title of the biography of Veronica Franco on which the movie Dangerous Beauty was (somewhat loosely) based. It was the term for the highest class of prostitute in Renaissance Venice, modeled on the
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