The Nuns of Sant'ambrogio: The True Story of a Convent in Scandal by Hubert Wolf

The Nuns of Sant'ambrogio: The True Story of a Convent in Scandal

Hubert Wolf with Ruth Martin (Translator)

496 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history religion true crime challenging informative slow-paced
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A Washington Post Notable Book In 1858, a German princess, recently inducted into the convent of Sant'Ambrogio in Rome, wrote a frantic letter to her cousin, a confidant of the Pope, claiming that she feared for her life. A subsequent investigatio...

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