Habitual Offenders
A True Tale of Nuns, Prostitutes, and Murderers in Seventeenth-Century Italy
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Word Count
86,000 words, Guess
Page Count
344 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139780226335339
- ISBN-10022633533X
- Library of Congress Control Number2015039579
- OCLC Control Number919341796
- Better World Books9780226335339
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- Open LibraryOL28586878M
Classifications
- LCCHV6535.I83B658 2016
- LCCHV6535.I83 B658 2016
Description
"In April 1644, two nuns fled Bologna’s convent for reformed prostitutes. A perfunctory archiepiscopal investigation went nowhere, and the nuns were quickly 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 over four thousand pages of primary sources, the intrepid Craig A. Monson reconstructs this fascinating history of crime and punishment in seventeenth-century Italy. Along the way, he explores Italy’s back streets and back stairs, giving us access to voices we rarely encounter in conventional histories: prostitutes and maidservants, mercenaries and bandits, along with other “dubious” figures negotiating the boundaries of polite society..."--Publisher description.
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- Habitual Offenders: A True Tale of Nuns, Prostitutes, and Murderers in Seventeenth-Century Italy
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