IF POSSIBLE,WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE ON POSTAGE.MID SIZE SOFT COVER WITH SOME CREASES -NO TEARS OR INSCRIPTIONSIn the Company of the Courtesan is a historical novel published in 2007 by Sarah Dunant. Set in 16th-century Italy, the novel traces the career of an expensive courtesan modeled on the woman portrayed in Titian?s famous painting ?The Venus of Urbino,? and the associates and lovers who form her social circle. As she flees Rome and has to rebuild her livelihood in Venice,