The Nun of Monza

First edition, second impression, published later the same year. Some slight edge wear and chipping to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners very slightly rubbed, slight time staining to back jacket. Not price clipped (25s), previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 230pp. Historian Mario Mazzucchelli tells the true and tragic story of Sister Virginia's seven years long affair inside a convent. The transcript was long concealed, but in1957 Mazzucchelli was allowed to read the testimonies of the 1607 trial. Sister Virginia was a Spanish contessa forced into a a convent in Milan as a sixteen year old, her seducer was a depraved and licentious seducer whose morals shocked even the Milanese court. A classic.