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Divas in the Convent : Nuns, Music, and Defiance in Seventeenth-Century Italy by Craig A. Monson is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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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 despite the church hierarchy's vehement opposition to all convent music—Vizzana became the star of the convent, composing works so thoroughly modern and expressive that a recent critic described them as "historical treasures." But at the very moment when
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- Author
- Craig A. Monson
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226535210
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Science, Music, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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