L’Enfer du couvent

by Arcangela Tarabotti, edited and translated by Catherine Kirkby

Book cover: L’Enfer du couvent

Extent: 256 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Early Modern & Renaissance Studies, Italian Studies, Literary Studies

Series: Masculin/feminin dans l'Europe moderne

Series volume number: 38, 5

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(April 2023)

ISBN: 9782406145837

8.62 x 5.91 inches

Price: $37.00

Out of stock

Hardback (Published)

(April 2023)

ISBN: 9782406145844

8.62 x 5.91 inches

Price: $98.00

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L’Enfer du couvent by Arcangela Tarabotti is a critical testimony on the conditions of these girls forced to take the veil in seventeenth century Venice. In addition to the description of the suffering, there is a masterful analysis of the political, economical and cultural causes of this phenomenon.

  • By (author) Arcangela Tarabotti
  • Edited and translated by Catherine Kirkby