The nuns of Sant'Ambrogio : a true story of a convent in scandal / Hubert Wolf ; translated by Ruth Martin.
Wolf, Hubert.
2015
BX4220.I8 W6513 2015 (Mapit)
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Title
The nuns of Sant'Ambrogio : a true story of a convent in scandal / Hubert Wolf ; translated by Ruth Martin.
Author
Wolf, Hubert.
Uniform Title
Nonnen von Sant'Ambrogio. English
Edition
First United States edition.
ISBN
9780385351904 (hardcover)
0385351909 (hardcover)
9780385351928 (electronic book)
0385351925
Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Language
English
Language Note
Translated from the German.
Description
xii, 476 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Call Number
BX4220.I8 W6513 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification
271/.973045632
Summary
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.
Note
Map on inside liner.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"Such turpitudes"
"The 'delicatezza' of the matter as such"
"I am the little lion of my reformed sisters"
"Wash me well, for the Padre is coming"
"An act of divine splendor"
"It is a heavenly liquor"
"That good Padre has spoiled the work of God"
"During these acts I never ceased my inner prayer"
"Sorrowful and contrite."

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