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Immodest acts
the life of a lesbian nun in Renaissance Italy
By Brown, Judith M.
- ISBN
- 978-0-19503-675-6
- Publisher
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1986.
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Reviewed on November 15, 1985
Brown (History, Stanford University), has written a scholarly but highly read able account of the life of a 16th-centu ry Italian nun. Benedetta Carlini was born in 1590 in the countryside around Pescia, became Abbess of the Theatine Convent of the Mother of God, was tried and sentenced to imprisonment within the ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
