Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() The dispensary mistress, Zuana, is appointed to bring this troubled soul into the fold, thus bringing Zuana firmly into the political life of the convent.ĭunant paints a fascinating post of a world where many intelligent and religious spent their lives cloistered together. Except Serafina does not want to be there and devotes all her energies to escape. The convent of Santa Caterina in Ferrarra has just accepted its newest novice, the angelically-voiced Serafina. In other cases, disabled and handicapped noblewomen found homes in convents. The rising cost of providing a dowry for noble daughters meant that many families sent their daughters to become Brides of Christ, often against their will. Sacred Hearts is the third novel in Sarah Dunant's Renaissance Trilogy (following on from The Birth of Venus and In The Company of The Courtesan) and is set in the cloistered and isolated world of a 16th century Benedictine convent. ![]()
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