Habitual Offenders: A True Tale of Nuns, Prostitutes, and Murderers in Seventeenth-Century Italy

by Craig A. Monson

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022633533X
• ISBN13: 9780226335339
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"