Name: Virgins of Venice

Full name: Virgins of Venice: Broken Vows and Cloistered Lives in the Renaissance Convent

Author: Mary Laven
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9780670031832
0670031836
Documents the experiences of late-Renaissance Venetian nuns, many of whom were upper-class women immured against their will, exploring how convents of the period were often political hotbeds and the sites of illicit love affairs in their resident's efforts to find fulfillment. 17,500 first printing.


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