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Sacred Hearts de Sarah Dunant
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Sacred Hearts (edició 2010)

de Sarah Dunant

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The year is 1570, and in the convent of Santa Caterina, in the Italian city of Ferrara, noblewomen find space to pursue their lives under God's protection. But any community, however smoothly run, suffers tremors when it takes in someone by force. And the arrival of Santa Caterina's new novice sets in motion a chain of events that will shake the convent to its core.… (més)
Membre:itchyfeetreader
Títol:Sacred Hearts
Autors:Sarah Dunant
Informació:Virago Press Ltd (2010), Paperback, 480 pages
Col·leccions:Llegit, però no el tinc
Valoració:****
Etiquetes:fiction, genre-historical fiction, italy, sixteenth century, convent

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Sacred Hearts de Sarah Dunant

  1. 10
    Cry to Heaven de Anne Rice (kraaivrouw)
  2. 10
    Bitter Greens de Kate Forsyth (charl08, BookshelfMonstrosity)
    charl08: Similar theme Italy, forced entry to a convent and women's battle for independence.
    BookshelfMonstrosity: Banished to convents for their scandalous behavior, the headstrong heroines of these historical novels bond with wise older nuns, who sympathize with the young women in their charge due to their own storied pasts.
  3. 00
    Mariana de Katherine Vaz (Sakerfalcon)
    Sakerfalcon: Another historical tale of a woman who enters a convent against her will. Mariana is set in Portugal, and is based on possible historical fact.
  4. 00
    The Miracles of Prato [MIRACLES OF PRATO] [Hardcover] de Laurie Lico Albanese (saratoga99)
    saratoga99: Another example of once wealthy families without sufficent dowries who sent daughters to convents.
  5. 00
    Lying Awake de Mark Salzman (derelicious)
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    The Sixteen Pleasures de Robert Hellenga (VenusofUrbino)
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    Juliet's Nurse de Lois Leveen (BookshelfMonstrosity)
    BookshelfMonstrosity: Star-crossed romance lies at the heart of both these novels set in Renaissance Italy: Sacret Hearts' convent-bound heroine yearns for her paramour; Juliet's Nurse, based on Shakespearean tragedy, examines love and loss through the eyes of the Capulets' faithful servant.… (més)
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Historical Fiction
  BooksInMirror | Feb 19, 2024 |
I read this after watching a quite excellent documentary on (the Irish State Broadcaster) RTE about the decline of nuns in the 21st Century and this shows how, for many nuns, it was a refuge, an escape and a prison and sometimes all at once. That they carved out their own place and space within the convent until, often, those outside made decisions that really made the lives of those inside hard or oppressive or both.
Sacred Hearts is set during the Renaissance, just before/during the Council of Trent and there are rumours that things are going to change in the world of the nuns and by change they mean, go to hell in a handbasket for anyone who had any gifts at all. The women in the convent of Santa Caterina who are Benedictines in the City of Ferrara. Their life has a certain order until sixteen-year-old Serafina drops from her unfortunate love affair (in her family's opinion at least) like a stone causing ripples in the peace of the convent. She's up against Madonna Chiara, an abbess from an old family who knows politics and is quite willing to break Serafina if she will not bend. The sister in charge of the Infirmary, Zuana, is trying to give Serafina some understanding.
The lives are complex and messy and you can see the looming changes that will stifle and control these women even further and break more of them, rather than use their talents to the full and for the glory etc. It's complex and everyone has their own agenda and the characters are so different. You can see the questions about being part or not a part of the community and how sometimes a dowry could be an incentive to keep someone in and that not all people were theree because they had a calling, Both tragic and heart-warming and sometimes at the same time. ( )
  wyvernfriend | Jan 29, 2024 |
A story of love, the imprisonment of women in convents when society gives them no alternative, powerplays between women in enclosed worlds where there is little to no immediate contact with the outside world (and the little contact would be taken away soon after this book finishes).

I did enjoy the book and the different relationships between the women and how they have all handled their entry into the convent - or not, as the case may be. I dont normally go for books about religious orders - having gone to a convent school for 14 years I generally have had my fill of real life experiences of nuns ! - but nevertheless am pleased that I have read it to completion.
  nordie | Oct 14, 2023 |
In een klooster in Ferrara rond 1570 leven nonnen uit rijke families min of meer gedwongen samen. Soms worden jonge meisjes ‘verkocht’ aan het klooster, zoals Isabetha/Serafina, die een relatie had met haar muziekleraar. Abdis Chiara probeert haar huis te runnen met zachte maar politiek bewuste hand, wat Serafina slecht bekomt. Ze verneemt dat haar geliefde haar verlaten heeft, en besluit om zich dan uit te hongeren om de pijn niet te voelen. De tegenstandster van Chiara, novicebegeleidster Umiliana, forceert Serafina in haar vasten, tot ze bijna sterft. Suora Zuana, die zich van in het begin over Serafina ontfermd heeft, doorziet de plot van Chiara, die Serafina voorgelogen heeft over haar geliefde: hij werd hardhandig aangepakt en voor dood achtergelaten, en ook die van de ascetische Umiliana, die zich van Serafina bedient om zelf abdis te worden, wat niet lukt. Dankzij Zuana wordt Serafina via een schatkist uit het klooster gesmokkeld en wordt ze herenigd met haar lief. Het klooster blijft van schandaal gespaard. Goede historische context van wat bisschoppen betrachtten in die 16de eeuw, de tijd van de contrareformatie.
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  Hoflack | Jul 14, 2023 |
3.5 stars

In 1570 in the Santa Caterina convent, Suora Zuana manages the dispensary and is called to sedate the newly arrived novice Serafina, who has absolutely no desire to be there. Serafina is known throughout the convent to be an exceptionally talented singer but absolutely refuses to sing; instead, she is assigned to help Zuana in the dispensary. The two develop a highly fraught bond as winds of political change threaten the convent's independence and relative freedom.

For a while, I think ever since I read The Name of the Rose, I'd been wanting to find more books featuring religious orders, especially nuns; this seemed like a really good fit, especially since I also enjoy reading about the Renaissance. The setting was vivid, and I found it really interesting how much political machination played out in the convent - it was really interesting to see these nuns being quite aware of goings-on in the outside world, especially with the backdrop of the Counter-Reformation. I didn't love the ending (it felt a little overdone, though I'm satisfied with the overall resolution to the plot), but I could see myself picking up another of Dunant's works in the future. ( )
  forsanolim | May 18, 2022 |
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