Sacred Hearts

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• SACRED HEARTS by Sarah Dunant

  Review by Terez Rose (JUL 23, 2010) In 16th-century Italy, a noblewoman of marriageable age had two choices: marriage and children, or reclusion to a convent. With the price of wedding dowries rising ever higher, most noble families could only afford ... (read full critics)

  mostlyfiction published on Thu, 30 Sep 2010

• Walled in

  Reading Sarah Dunant's latest novel, set in the Italian Renaissance, one is forced to wonder whether Orwell might have had cloistered life in mind when he created the world of Nineteen Eighty-Four. Sacred Hearts takes place inside the Benedictine clo ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

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  From a letter sent in 1586 by a nun from Santi Naborre e Felice Convent in Bologna to the Pope himself:

  Many of us are shut up against our will and deprived of all contact with the outside world. Living with such strictness and abandoned by everyone, we have only hell, in this world and the next ... (continue)

  From a letter sent in 1586 by a nun from Santi Naborre e Felice Convent in Bologna to the Pope himself:

  Many of us are shut up against our will and deprived of all contact with the outside world. Living with such strictness and abandoned by everyone, we have only hell, in this world and the next

  And now I'm going to read Verga's "Storia di una Capinera"

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  Georgiana1792 said on Jul 5, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  This was a very disappointing book. I've read two others by this author and found them to be entertaining, if not, compelling. This, by contrast, is far too "Catholic" for my tastes. Although the author is evoking what she envisions as the life within a 16th century convent, her obsession with the d ... (continue)

  This was a very disappointing book. I've read two others by this author and found them to be entertaining, if not, compelling. This, by contrast, is far too "Catholic" for my tastes. Although the author is evoking what she envisions as the life within a 16th century convent, her obsession with the depth of "spirituality" is all too

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  Kerry Jacobson said on Sep 4, 2009 | Add your feedback

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• ISBN-10: 1400063825
• ISBN-13: 9781400063826
• Publisher: Random House
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