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convertite [ˈkɒnvəˌtaɪt] n Archaic a convert, esp a reformed prostitute How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Blume, "Botticelli's Commission for Sant'Elisabetta delle Convertite and Courtauld Trinity"; Kathleen Wren Christian, "Petratch's Triumph of Chastity in Leonardo's Lady with an Ermine"; Giovanna Galante Garrone, "From Southwest Piedmont: A Fragment by Hans Clemer"; Christa Gardner Von, "Light on the Cross: Cardinal Pedro Gonzalez de Mendoza and Antoniazzo Romano in Teuffel, Sta. After a valuable survey in chapter one of women's institutions across Renaissance Italy, the author in chapter two zeroes in on the Nunnery of the Convertite (or converted former prostitutes, founded 1332), on the secular House for immoral or Badly-Behaving Wives (Malmaritate) (1579), both in Florence, and on the Pistoian house of Santa Mari Maddalena (1604), also for former prostitutes. San Zuan on Torcello was a special monastery for the convertite, that is, those women who had turned away from a life of prostitution. |
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