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Divas in the Convent (Paperback, Revised ed.)
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Divas in the Convent (Paperback, Revised ed.)
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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
Vizzana's works appeared in 1623 - she would be the only Bolognese
nun ever to publish her music - extraordinary troubles beset her
and her fellow nuns, as episcopal authorities arrived to
investigate anonymous allegations of sisterly improprieties with
male members of their order. Craig A. Monson retells the story of
Vizzana and the nuns of Santa Cristina to elucidate the role that
music played in the lives of these cloistered women. Monson
explains how the sisters - refusing to accept what the church
hierarchy called God's will and what the nuns perceived as a
besmirching of their honor - fought back with words and music, and
when these proved futile, with bricks, roof tiles, and stones.
These women defied one Bolognese archbishop after another,
cardinals in Rome, and even the pope himself, until threats of
excommunication and abandonment by their families brought them to
their knees twenty-five years later. By then, Santa Cristina's
imaginative but frail composer literally had been driven mad by the
conflict. Monson's fascinating narrative relies heavily on the
words of its various protagonists, on both sides of the cloister
wall, who emerge vividly as imaginative, independent-minded, and
not always sympathetic figures. In restoring the musically gifted
Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana to history, Monson introduces readers to
the full range of captivating characters who played their parts in
seventeenth-century convent life.
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