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Habitual Offenders
A True Tale of Nuns, Prostitutes, and Murderers in Seventeenth-Century Italy
Inbunden, 2016
384 kr
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In April 1644, two nuns fled Bologna’s convent for reformed prostitutes. A perfunctory archiepiscopal investigation went nowhere, and the nuns were quickly forgotten. By June of the next year, however, an overwhelming stench drew a woman to the wine cellar of her Bolognese townhouse, reopened after …
Nuns Behaving Badly
Tales of Music, Magic, Art, and Arson in the Convents of Italy
Inbunden, 2010
440 kr
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Witchcraft. Arson. Going AWOL. Some nuns in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy strayed far from the paradigms of monastic life. Cloistered in convents, subjected to stifling hierarchy, repressed, and occasionally persecuted by their male superiors, these women circumvented authority in …
Nuns Behaving Badly
Tales of Music, Magic, Art, and Arson in the Convents of Italy
Häftad, 2011
203 kr
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Witchcraft. Arson. Going AWOL. Some nuns in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy strayed far from the paradigms of monastic life. Cloistered in convents, subjected to stifling hierarchy, repressed, and occasionally persecuted by their male superiors, these women circumvented authority in …
Divas in the Convent
Nuns, Music, and Defiance in Seventeenth-Century Italy
Häftad, 2012
314 kr
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When eight-year-old Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana (1590-1662) entered one of the preeminent convents in Bologna in 1598, she had no idea what cloistered life had in store for her. Thanks to clandestine instruction from a local maestro di cappella - and despite the church hierarchy's vehement opposition …
Lord, the Slave, and the Tailor’s Son
Andrea Casali and Identity Theft in Renaissance Italy
Inbunden, 2027
468 kr
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Andrea Casali might well have been forgotten. A handsome, young Bolognese nobleman, heir to fabulous wealth, palaces, and artistic treasures, known as a poet and artist, in 1604 he was reported killed at age nineteen during the epic Siege of Ostend. Thirty years later, however, a grizzled, former …
Black Widows of the Eternal City
The True Story of Rome''s Most Infamous Poisoners
E-bok, 2020
573 kr
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The Black Widows of the Eternal City offers, for the first time, a book-length study of an infamous cause célèbre in seventeenth-century Rome, how it resonated then and has continued to resonate: the 1659 investigation and prosecution of Gironima Spana and dozens of Roman widows, who shared a …
Black Widows of the Eternal City
The True Story of Rome's Most Infamous Poisoners
Inbunden, 2020
757 kr
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The Black Widows of the Eternal City offers, for the first time, a book-length study of an infamous cause célèbre in seventeenth-century Rome, how it resonated then and has continued to resonate: the 1659 investigation and prosecution of Gironima Spana and dozens of Roman widows, who shared a …
