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Istruzione per li confessori delle monache Della Città, e della Diocesi di Novara

4to. pp. 26, [2 blank]. Unbound. Woodcut arms of Marco Aurelio Balbis Bertone, bishop of Novara, to title, woodcut initial, colophon dated 7 April 1779. A rare set of extremely interesting instructions for confessors of nuns in the city and diocese of Novara, in northwest Italy, issued by the bishop in 1779. The instructions discuss the qualities required by confessors - including patience, discretion, impartiality, and firmness - as well as how they should conduct themselves when visiting convents and hearing confessions. Some of the detail is fascinating: they were, for example, not to develop an affection for any of the nuns, had to discourage them from singing profane songs and drinking too much wine, to crack down on the playing of games for money and the trafficking of clothes or animals, to be wary of accounts of religious ecstasy or revelations, to make sure that the nuns did not read prohibited books such as novels, dramas and comedies, and to ensure that the convent’s educational charges did not have their heads filled with ‘modern vanities’. Paragraph LXXVI gives a list of religious works and authors which confessors were to recommend nuns to read

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