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

by Craig A. Monson and Annabeth Albert

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226535193
• ISBN13: 9780226535197
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"