a true tale of nuns, prostitutes, and murderers in seventeenth-century Italy
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Monson, Craig A.
- Publish Year
- 2016
- Shelfmark
- Z EUR 1C 2016 - B
- Thesaurus
- religieuzen, prostitutie, criminaliteit, 17e eeuw, Italië
- Description
- In April 1644, two nuns fled Bologna’s convent for reformed prostitutes. An investigation went nowhere, and the nuns were forgotten. By June of the next year, however, an overwhelming stench drew a woman to the wine cellar of her Bolognese townhouse, reopened after a two-year absence, where to her horror she discovered the eerily intact, garroted corpses of the two missing women. Drawing on primary sources, Monson reconstructs the history of crime and punishment in seventeenth-century Italy.