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This volume brings together the published academic essays of the Renaissance historian Patricia Hochschild Labalme (1927-2002). Appearing between 1955 and 1999,

Because limited family resources favored some daughters' marriage prospects at the expense of their sisters', the family and marriage practices of the Venetian

Discusses the various roles women took on during the Renaissance.

Rich in intrigue and gossip, this book uncovers the long-hidden stories of the "virgins of Venice"--3,000 nuns, many of them immured against their will, in the