The Nuns of Sant'Ambrogio: The True Story of a Convent in Scandal by Ruth Martin, Hubert Wolf

The Nuns of Sant'Ambrogio: The True Story of a Convent in Scandal

Ruth Martin, Hubert Wolf

496 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history religion true crime challenging informative slow-paced

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A true, never-before-told story-discovered in a secret Vatican archive-of sex, poison, and lesbian initiation rites in a nineteenth-century convent. In 1858, a German princess, recently inducted into the convent of SantAmbrogio in Rome, wrote a fr...

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