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A review by libellum_aphrodite
The Nuns of Sant'ambrogio: The True Story of a Convent in Scandal by Hubert Wolf
3.0
What a shitshow. You'll have to read it to believe it. Just when I thought it couldn't get more insane, someone else was manipulated into forbidden sex.
The tale of all the backgrounds of all the nuns and confessors, who manipulated whom, and why they did so was absolutely fascinating; the deliberation of the inquisitional squad over duration of sentencing (with minimal exploration of different Catholic orders and their dislike of one another) was less so. I would have preferred to read more testimonials from the investigation in favor of this laundry list of who went to jail for how long.
While I skipped pages through the sentencing, the storytelling of the cast of characters being investigated, their history and motivations, and their behaviors throughout the trial was beautifully done. Wolf kept me engrossed as he masterfully pulled back the curtain on the nuns' backstories.
The tale of all the backgrounds of all the nuns and confessors, who manipulated whom, and why they did so was absolutely fascinating; the deliberation of the inquisitional squad over duration of sentencing (with minimal exploration of different Catholic orders and their dislike of one another) was less so. I would have preferred to read more testimonials from the investigation in favor of this laundry list of who went to jail for how long.
While I skipped pages through the sentencing, the storytelling of the cast of characters being investigated, their history and motivations, and their behaviors throughout the trial was beautifully done. Wolf kept me engrossed as he masterfully pulled back the curtain on the nuns' backstories.