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100	1		_aChasles, Philarète, _d1798-1873
245	1	0	_aVirginie de Leyva
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2025-12-03
508			_aLaurent Vogel (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica))
520			_a"Virginie de Leyva" by Philarète Chasles is a historical account written in the mid-19th century. Drawing on original legal records, it reconstructs the scandal of the Signora di Monza—Sister Virginia Maria—an aristocrat forced into vows in early seventeenth-century Lombardy, and the web of passion, crime, and clerical casuistry that followed. Centered on Virginia, the Machiavellian neighbor Osio, and the corrupt confessor Arrighone, it unfolds against Spanish-ruled Italy. The work uses this case to probe what civilization and morality mean beneath polished forms and pious rhetoric. The opening of the work dedicates the narrative to Thackeray, poses sharp questions about true civilization versus empty forms, and invokes Fénelon to argue that moral life must grow from the inner soul, not external discipline. Chasles then introduces the scholar Dandolo, secluded in the Apennines and mining archives, whose discoveries lead to the Monza trial; he situates the story in an Italy made decadent by Spanish domination, baroque taste, and social servility. The narrative sketches Virginia’s lineage and forced profession at thirteen, her beauty and seigneurial power, the lax convent culture, the casuist guidance of Arrighone, and the proximity of the adroit Osio. It proceeds to Cardinal Federico Borromeo’s discreet visit and Virginia’s audacious demand to marry, followed by her removal to Milan, the nocturnal flight of two nuns and the violent Lambro assaults that trigger public scandal, apathetic bystanders, and the first interrogations—signaling the broader exposure of justice, power, and moral decay that the case will reveal. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cParis: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1861
653			_aLeyva, Virginia Maria de, 1575-1650
653			_aMonasticism and religious orders for women
653			_aConvents -- Italy
856	4		_uhttps://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5831417q
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77395
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