@article{732034, note = {Map on inside liner.}, author = {Wolf, Hubert.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/732034}, title = {The nuns of Sant'Ambrogio : a true story of a convent in scandal /}, abstract = {In 1858, a German princess, recently inducted into the convent of Sant'Ambrogio in Rome, wrote a frantic letter to her cousin, a confidant of the Pope, claiming that she was being abused and feared for her life. The subsequent investigation by the Church's Inquisition uncovered illicit behavior of the convent's beautiful young mistress, Maria Luisa. Having convinced those under her charge that she was having regular visions and heavenly visitations, Maria Luisa began to lead and coerce her novices into lesbian initiation rites and heresies. What emerges through the fog of centuries is a sex scandal of ecclesiastical significance.}, recid = {732034}, pages = {xii, 476 pages :}, }