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 (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 d...

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