![]() ![]() Under papal guard for the rest of her life. Ultimately, Benedetta was stripped of her position as abbess and held Benedetta refutedīartolemea’s claims, asserting that their relationship had been consensual and ![]() ![]() While possessed by one of the supposed male demons. Of the Convent of the Mother of God and Benedetta’s case, a fellow nun named Sisterīartolemea came forward and declared that Benedetta had molested her Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy - Studies in the History of Sexuality Brown, Judith C. Reported to the papacy, which declared the “men” in Benedetta’s visions to She was also declared a mystic soon after becoming abbess when sheĬlaimed to be having visions of men who were trying to kill her. ![]() She was made the abbess of theĬonvent when she was only 30. The prestigious Convent of the Mother of God. Her middle-class family was able to afford her a position in Nun who lived in Italy in the 17th century and has been immortalized as one of the first known lesbian nuns in history.įollowing the release of Immodest Acts, the Canadian playwright Rosemary Rowe penned a play about Benedetta’s affair with Sister Bartolomea titled Benedetta Carlini: Lesbian Nun of Renaissance Italy ( x). The biographical novel follows the story of Benedetta Carlini, a high-profile On this day in 1986, the book Immodest Acts by Judith Brown was DECEMBER 11: Immodest Acts by Judith Brown is published (1986) ![]()
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