Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy

This extraordinary story is told from the archive documents in the case of Sister Benedetta Carlini, an Abbess who was imprisoned for thirty-five years after being found guilty of a lesbian relationship with another nun.

• | By (Author): Judith C. (Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University) Brown
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• | Publication Date: Feb 19, 1987
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 224 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Paperback|Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0195042255
• | ISBN-13: 9780195042252