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One of the best parts of working in an academic library is browsing the catalog, clicking trhough to see where things lead, and discovering subject headings like this:

Subject Lesbian nuns -- Italy -- Biography.

We only have one book about lesbian nuns in Italy, but we also have one about lesbian nuns in the US.

And because I know some of you are perking up right now, here's the answer to the question you were about to ask: Brown, Judith C. Immodest acts : the life of a lesbian nun in Renaissance Italy. New York : Oxford University Press, 1986.

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The main reason I haven't checked it out yet is that it's one of the books stored offsite and I don't like to request offsite books unless they're directly relevant to what I'm working on, but one day...