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"[A] lucid analysis of conventual life in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Venice which bears its learning lightly. But it is just as fascinating for the insights which it gives into culinary practices in nunneries, for food plays a prominent role in this most accessible historical study.Laven, Mary is the author of 'Virgins of Venice Broken Vows and Cloistered Lives in the Renaissance Convent', published 2003 under ISBN 9780670031832 and ISBN 0670031836.
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