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

Author: Mary Laven Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads ISBNs: 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.