Virgins of Venice: Enclosed Lives and Broken Vows in the Renaissance Convent by Mary Laven

Virgins of Venice: Enclosed Lives and Broken Vows in the Renaissance Convent

Mary Laven

320 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history religion informative slow-paced
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"Venice in the late Renaissance was a city of fabulous wealth, reckless creativity, and growing social unrest as its maritime empire crumbled. It was also a city of walls and secrets, ghettos and cloisters - including fifty convents housing three ...

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