Venice: A Discarded Daughter
In the magical world of seventeenth-century Venice-lacework palaces flickering in gleaming waterways, opulence and decadence, creative liberty, and political rigidity-we are astounded to find that La Serenissima''s dozens of convents housed most of the city''s well-to-do girls and women, many of whom had been locked up by force, enclosed for life with little or no recourse to ever step beyond conf...
In the magical world of seventeenth-century Venice-lacework palaces flickering in gleaming waterways, opulence and decadence, creative liberty, and political rigidity-we are astounded to find that La Serenissima''s dozens of convents housed most of the city''s well-to-do girls and women, many of whom had been locked up by force, enclosed for life with little or no recourse to ever step beyond conf...
