L'"Inferno monacale" di Arcangela Tarabotti

The "inside story" on convent life by a political, protofeminist Venetian nun, Arcangela Tarabotti (1604-1652), which had never been published before, but circulated broadly, together with a lengthy essay by Francesca Medioli on unwilling nuns, Venice during the XVIIth century, alphabetisation, reading for women, textual strategies.