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

by Craig Monson (Author)

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  Paperback
  2012

  $32.89

  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. This title retells the story of Vizzana and the nuns of Santa Cristina to elucidate the role that music played in the lives of these cloistered women.