05764nam 2200649 450 991079718480332120230807214200.00-19-104606-X(CKB)3710000000382986(EBL)1961752(OCoLC)908082100(SSID)ssj0001495322(PQKBManifestationID)11842980(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001495322(PQKBWorkID)11450397(PQKB)10509096(MiAaPQ)EBC1961752(Au-PeEL)EBL1961752(CaPaEBR)ebr11039052(CaONFJC)MIL760401(EXLCZ)99371000000038298620150413h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe nuns of Sant'Ambrogio the true story of a convent in scandal /Hubert Wolf ; translated by Ruth MartinOxford, [England] :Oxford University Press,2015.©20151 online resource (492 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-104605-1 0-19-873219-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.""Cover""; ""The NUNS Of SANTâ€?AMBROGIO: THE TRUE STORY OF A CONVENT SCANDAL""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Dramatis Personae""; ""Prologue: “Save, Save Me!â€?""; ""CHAPTER ONE: “Such Turpitudesâ€?: Katharina von Hohenzollern Complains to the Inquisition""; ""ROME AS A HEAVENLY JERUSALEM""; ""A ROAD-TO-DAMASCUSEXPERIENCE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES""; ""A ROMAN CLOISTERED IDYLL""; ""SALVATION FROM A CLOISTERED HELL""; ""DENUNCIATION AS A MORAL DUTY""; ""THE SECRET OF SANTâ€?AMBROGIO""; ""A POSSESSED SEDUCER OF NUNS""; ""A FALSE SAINT""; ""POISONING""; ""THE SAVIORâ€?S PERSPECTIVE""""CHAPTER TWO: “The â€?Delicatezzaâ€? of the Matter as Suchâ€?: Extrajudicial Preliminary Investigations""""INFORMAL QUESTIONING""; ""THE OUTCASTâ€?S TESTIMONY""; ""TWO NUNS IN A BED""; ""UNCHASTITY AND SODOMY""; ""A DOMINICAN WANTS THE DETAILS""; ""MANY CONVINCING PROOFS""; ""AN INQUISITION TRIAL, AFTER ALL""; ""THE INQUISITION TRIBUNAL: PROCESSES AND PROTAGONISTS""; ""THE SOURCES FROM THE ARCHIVE OF THE CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH""; ""CHAPTER THREE: “I Am the Little Lion of My Reformed Sistersâ€?: The Informative Process and the Devotees of the Mother Founder""""THE CONVENT OF SANTâ€?AMBROGIO DELLA MASSIMA""""FRANCISCANS OF THE THIRD ORDER""; ""AGNESE FIRRAO IS VENERATED AS A SAINT""; ""AGNESE FIRRAO IS ACCUSED OF FALSE HOLINESS""; ""THE INQUISITIONâ€?S 1816 VERDICT""; ""THE MIRACULOUS CONVERSION OF LEO XII""; ""TRUE AND FALSE HOLINESS""; ""PROOF OF THE CONTINUING CULT OF FIRRAO""; ""THE SECRET ABBESS""; ""RELICS""; ""INSPIRED TEXTS""; ""A “MOTHER CONFESSORâ€?""; ""THE CONFESSORS PROCLAIM THE FALSE CULT""; ""CHAPTER FOUR: “Wash Me Well, for the Padre Is Comingâ€?: The Madre Vicariaâ€?s Pretense of Holiness""; ""VISIONS ON THE ROAD TO POWER""""MYSTICISM""""THE EARTHLY ORIGINS OF HEAVENLY RINGS AND THE SCENT OF ROSES""; ""LETTERS FROM THE MOTHER OF GOD""; ""THE MARIAN CENTURY""; ""FORGING LETTERS FROM THE VIRGIN""; ""PASTORAL CARE IN BED""; ""LESBIAN INTIMACIES IN A CONVENT CELL""; ""THE SANTâ€?AMBROGIO SYSTEM""; ""CHAPTER FIVE: “An Act of Divine Splendorâ€?: Murder on the Orders of the Virgin""; ""THE AMERICANO AND HIS OBSCENE LETTER""; ""THE CORD AROUND KATHARINAâ€?S NECK""; ""HEAVENLY LETTERS FORETELL KATHARINAâ€?S MURDER""; ""THE DRAMATURGY OF A POISONING""; ""“IT WAS MOST CERTAINLY THE DEVILâ€?""; ""MORE MURDERS""""PENNIES FROM HEAVEN""""THE CONFESSORS AS CONFIDANTS AND ACCOMPLICES""; ""THE RESULTS OF THE INFORMATIVE PROCESS""; ""CHAPTER SIX: “It Is a Heavenly Liquorâ€?: The Offensive Process and the Interrogation of the Madre Vicaria""; ""“I ALWAYS WANTED TO BECOME A NUNâ€?""; ""THE STORY OF AN INNOCENT LAMB""; ""EVIDENCE AND FIRST CONFESSIONS""; ""MARIA LUISA AND HER NOVICES""; ""SEXUAL ABUSE""; ""JESUIT CONFESSORS AND THEIR VERY SPECIAL BLESSING""; ""THE CONFESSORâ€?S AFFAIR WITH ALESSANDRA N.""; ""MARIA LUISA AND PADRE PETERS: BLESSING OR BEDDING?""; ""“MY ONLY DEFENSE IS JESUS CHRISTâ€?""""CHAPTER SEVEN: “That Good Padre Has Spoiled the Work of Godâ€?: The Interrogations of the Father Confessor and the Abbess""Discovered in a secret Vatican archive, this is the true, never-before-told story of poison, murder, and lesbian initiation rites in a nineteenth century convent.In 1858, Katherina von Hohenzollern, a German princess recently inducted into the convent of Sant'Ambrogio in Rome, wrote a frantic letter to her cousin, a confidant of the Pope, claiming that she was being abused and feared for her life. The subsequent investigation by the Church's Inquisition uncovered the extraordinary secrets of Sant'Ambrogio and the illicit behavior of the convent's beautiful young mistress, Maria Luissa. What emMonasticism and religious orders for womenItalyRomeHistory19th centurySex scandalsItalyRomeHistory19th centuryItalyRomefastMonasticism and religious orders for womenHistorySex scandalsHistory271.973045632Wolf Hubert472307Martin RuthMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910797184803321The nuns of Sant'Ambrogio3695077UNINA