Divas in the convent: nuns, music, and defiance in seventeenth-century Italy

Praeludium: putting nun musicians in their place

Donna Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana of Santa Cristina della Fondazza

Lucrezia Vizzana's musical apprenticeship

Musical and monastic disobedience in Vizzana's Componimenti musicali

Hearing Lucrezia Vizzana's voice

Troubles in an earthly paradise: "It began because of music"

Voices of discord at Santa Cristina

Losing battles with a bishop: "We cared for Babylon, and she is not healed"

A gentler means to a bitter end

"Pomp indecent for religious observance and modesty"

Another bishop, another battle, a different outcome

A last battle and an uneasy peace

Coda.