<p>In the 17th century, inside the monastery of Santa Chiara in Udine, the sisters organised themselves to transform this cloistered place into a centre of culture and free thought. By opposing the imposed precepts and benefiting from the support of families and the city government, the small community of nuns developed a movement of resistance to patriarchy, which succeeded even in the face of the Inquisition trial. The sisters' story is intertwined with that of another example of resistance, Arcangela Tarabotti, who was forced to enter a monastery at the age of ten because of a physical defect (lameness) that made her unsuitable for marriage. Angelica became a scholar, who never ceased to recount the deprivation of freedom in her works, denouncing the mechanisms that relegated young girls without a vocation to monasteries.</p>

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Cuscunà Marta

Italy

Monfalcone

Bassano del Grappa

Printed

Feminism

Religion

Monastery

Trial

Fence

Resistance

Complaint

Inquisition

Satirical

Polemical

Parodistic

Ironic

Italian

Satira per attrice e pupazze sul lusso d’esser donne

Daughter

Bishop

Father

Sister

Vicaire

Narrator

Alternating narrative / dialogue

Prologue

Philosophical dialogue

Offstage

Scene in a low voice

Court scene

La semplicità ingannata

Betrayed naivety