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A01=Sister Giustina Niccolini
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- ISBN 9780772721082
- Weight: 602g
- Dimensions: 156 x 232mm
- Publication Date: 01 May 2011
- Publisher: University of Toronto Press
- Publication City/Country: CA
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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The Chronicle of Le Murate, completed by Sister Giustina Niccolini in 1598, is one of a small number of surviving documents that presents a nun’s own interpretation and synthesis of historical events. It recounts the roughly two hundred-year history of Florence’s largest convent, which attracted boarders, nuns and patrons from Italy’s elite families. The manuscript provides a rare view of life behind the enclosure walls and of nuns interaction with the world outside. The messy vitality of this account is an important pendant to the more formal and predictable convent chronicles that dominate the genre.
Saundra Weddle is Associate Professor of Architecture and Art History at Drury University. She has authored several articles relating to the form and function of convent architecture in Renaissance Italy.
