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Published by Forgotten Books, 2018
ISBN 10: 1333644477ISBN 13: 9781333644475
Seller: Forgotten Books, London, United Kingdom
Book Print on Demand
Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. Excerpt from The Mysteries of the Neapolitan Convents. About the Publisher, Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. This text has been digitally restored from a historical edition. Some errors may persist, however we consider it worth publishing due to the work's historical value. The digital edition of all books may be viewed on our website before purchase. print-on-demand item.
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Published by A S Hale, Hartford, 1869
Seller: Robert S. Brooks, Bookseller, Bristol, WI, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good+ Clean Unmarked Book. Yes Illustrated (illustrator). Early Edition. both hinges weak.
Published by A.S. Hale and Company, Hartford, Connecticut, 1868
Seller: Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP, Burbank, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very clean, unmarked, hinge good though binding very sliglty shaken.
Published by Forgotten Books, 2018
ISBN 10: 0331670461ISBN 13: 9780331670462
Seller: PBShop.store US, Wood Dale, IL, U.S.A.
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HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
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Published by Literary Licensing, LLC, 2014
ISBN 10: 1498097367ISBN 13: 9781498097369
Seller: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Condition: New.
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Published by Hansebooks Apr 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 3348045657ISBN 13: 9783348045650
Seller: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Memoirs of Henrietta Caracciolo of the Princess of Forino - from the Italian is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1864.Hans Elektronisches Buch is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hans Elektronisches Buch newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future. 388 pp. Englisch.
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Published by A. S. Hale & Co.; P. J. Claassen ; Pacific Publishing Co., Hartford, Chicago, San Francisco, 1869
Seller: Voyageur Book Shop, Milwaukee, WI, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 484pp. Green cloth, bevelled, gold stamp design on cover, and on spine. Small tears at the head and foot of spine. Text is bright and clean, with just a few flaws. The last pages after the printed text are held to the back fly leaf by a paper clip. Text is shaken in the middle. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. L6.
Published by A. S. Hale & Co, Hartford, CT, 1869
Seller: Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare, Schenectady, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. 484pp. Original brown cloth stamped in gold and blind on the front panel and decorated in gold on the spine panel. Frontispiece and five inserted plates. The somewhat fictionalized autobiography of Enrichetta Caracciolo, a former Benedictine nun, Italian patriot and feminist. Wear to spine ends, rubbing to covers, name in pencil on the front free endpaper and the flyleaf, some underlining. A good copy. ; Octavo.
Published by Salzwasser-Verlag Gmbh, 2021
ISBN 10: 3752524146ISBN 13: 9783752524147
Seller: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Condition: New.
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Published by Salzwasser-Verlag Gmbh, 2021
ISBN 10: 3752524154ISBN 13: 9783752524154
Seller: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Condition: New.
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Published by Richard Bentley, London, 1865
Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. None stated (illustrator). The third edition of this very scarce and revealing memoir by Henrietta Caracciolo, detailing her time as a Benedictine nun. The third edition. First published in English in 1864. First published in Italian under the title 'Misteri Del Chiostro Napoletano' (Secrets of a Neapolitan Cloister).Very scarce. Rarely seen in commerce.Register of Erotic Books 2950.Translated from the original Italian under the sanction of the princess.Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece.This very scarce autobiographical work was written by Henrietta Caraccolio (Enrichetta Caracciolo), the daughter of the prince of Forino. The work is a highly unusual and notable example of anti-Catholic writing, delivered with a frank exploration into female eroticism through the lens of a young woman who was denied the ability to explore her own sexuality.Caracciolo was sent to a Benedictine convent due to financial difficulties and was not able to gain her freedom until 1860. This revealing and shocking memoir condemned the Benedictine convents and revealed the traumas she had experienced there, which included sexual and physical abuse.The work offers a scathing inditement of Convent life, with the author notably refuting any sense of morality or virtuosity which is often linked to the institution. Indeed, Caracciolo concludes with her belief that Victorian family life is both more virtuous whilst offering the opportunity for sexual fulfilment. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally very smart with fading to the spine and extremities and light shelf wear. Front hinge starting slightly. Internally firmly bound with lightly age toned and generally clean pages with only light spotting to the front and rear and offsetting to the verso of the front free endpaper. Very Good Indeed. book.
Published by Richard Bentley, London, 1864
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First English language edition. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards with morocco label to spine. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Measuring 179 x 119mm and collating complete including photographic frontis: x, 374. A square, tight copy with some loss to upper spine label and gentle rubbing to boards. Amorial bookplate to front pastedown. Light scattered foxing largely confined to preliminary and terminal leaves; pages 161-162 partially detached but holding. A female-authored memoir that participates in both anti-Catholicism and convent-fetish eroticism, it is somewhat scarce institutionally but is a rarity in trade with its most recent appearance at auction occurring a century ago. The present is the only example currently on the market. Frank in her delivery, Henrietta Caracciolo recounts how her rise to young womanhood under the jealous eye of her mother -- combined with the untimely death of a sympathetic father -- led to her unwilling confinement in a Benedictine convent. Denied early opportunities for engaging in the courtship and marriage economy she longs to be a part of, Henrietta Caracciolo instead is forced by her mother to repress her sexual identity and disappear into a life of solitude and chastity. What she finds there instead is a space of sexual abuse, unexplained deaths, illicit affairs, physical abuse, and theft. "My sole aim in writing these Memoirs has been to confirm," she writes in the preface, "as far as lay in my power, with the arguement drawn from fact, the opportune and just decree of the Italian government in the suppression of Convents, and to disabuse the minds of those (if haply any such remain) who deem these places the repositories of religious virtues." Timely social commentary in her native Italy, her memoirs hit a different note in Protestant England where Catholic convents and monasteries had long been closed; indeed, it participated in the anti-Catholic fetish fantasy of convents and monasteries as bastions of deviant and violent sexuality. She herself, by the memoir's end, emerges to a new and more promising life -- one which participates in popular Victorian cult of domesticity and motherhood, which she positions as far more godly and fulfilling. Yet it also leaves open the door of female desire and sexual fulfilment. "By the side of a husband who adores me, and to whom I respond with equal love, I am where the Almighty placed woman at the close of Creation's first week." Register of Erotic Books 2950.