Tra il 1573 e il 1574 Elena Orsini di Pitigliano, badessa di Castro, e Francesco Cittadini, vescovo di Castro, furono processati dal Tribunale romano dell’Auditor Camerae per stuprum, reato costituito dal rapporto sessuale illecito con una donna sposata o nubile, anche se consenziente, in questo caso aggravato dal coinvolgimento di un alto prelato. Preceduta da un’introduzione storico-filologica, viene qui pubblicata la trascrizione integrale del processo, conservato oggi presso il fondo manoscritti della British Library di Londra che lo acquist�, per il tramite del suo direttore Antonio Panizzi, dal celebre collezionista, bibliofilo e ladro di manoscritti Guglielmo Libri. La storia di questo scandalo, resa famosa dal celebre romanzo di Stendhal, L’abbesse de Castro, pubblicato per la prima nel 1839 sulla �Revue des Deux Mondes�, arricchisce gli studi sulle fonti stendhaliane e permette di far luce sulle procedure che la Chiesa adott� riguardo a un tema che emerse in tutta la sua urgenza all’indomani del Concilio di Trento. Inoltre, restituisce vividamente l’ambiente religioso del Cinquecento e il dramma delle monacazioni forzate.

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