Convents and the Body Politic in Late Renaissance Venice (Women in Culture and Society Series)
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The listing describes Convents and the Body Politic in Late Renaissance Venice (Women in Culture and Society Series) by Jutta Gisela Sperling as a general-interest book whose subject is easy to identify. The copy shown here is 2000 • Univ of Chicago Pr • 434 pages.
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Paperback: ISBN-13 9780226769363
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