Divas in the Convent: Nuns, Music, and Defiance in Seventeenth-Century Italy by Craig A. Monson

Divas in the Convent: Nuns, Music, and Defiance in Seventeenth-Century Italy

Craig A. Monson

296 pages • first pub 2012 (view editions)

nonfiction history music emotional informative slow-paced
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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 de...

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