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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:
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.
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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(I took a class on Renaissance Florence that basically turned out to be about everything other than cishet men of property. Magic, lesbian nuns, sex, murder, alchemy, etc. etc.
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I don't think I was the only person who was disgruntled with the direction the class took because the prof sat down at one point and carefully explained that that was what the class was--which was not the description in the course catalog--on the day AFTER we could drop for no penalty.
I mostly checked out at that point, doing just enough work to scrape either a C+ or a B-.
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And ugh, yes, on that kind of class problem. (The conducting class that broke my ability to listen to classical music for more than a decade was like that: our professor kept wanting it to be an orchestral repertoire class.)