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Habitual Offenders (Hardcover)
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Habitual Offenders (Hardcover)
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In April 1644, two nuns fled Bologna's convent for reformed
prostitutes. A perfunctory archiepiscopal investigation went
nowhere, and the nuns were quickly forgotten. By June of the next
year, however, an overwhelming stench drew a woman to the wine
cellar of her Bolognese townhouse, reopened after a two-year
absence--where to her horror she discovered the eerily intact,
garroted corpses of the two missing women. Drawing on over four
thousand pages of primary sources, the intrepid Craig A. Monson
reconstructs this fascinating history of crime and punishment in
seventeenth-century Italy. Along the way, he explores Italy's back
streets and back stairs, giving us access to voices we rarely
encounter in conventional histories: prostitutes and maidservants,
mercenaries and bandits, along with other "dubious" figures
negotiating the boundaries of polite society. Painstakingly
researched and breathlessly told, Habitual Offenders will delight
historians and true-crime fans alike.
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