Rooms to Share: Convent Cells and Social Relations in Early Modern Italy

Abstract

The 30th October 1675. I, Donna Armenia Poepanni, a nun in the Most Serene Monastery of Saint Giulia of Brescia . . . donate my room and its annex to Donna Regina Savoldi to be kept and possessed in my company for the rest of my life and after my death she can do as she pleases with it.1 Donna Armenia addressed these lines to the father superiors of her convent. The cell she wanted to bequeath to her companion, with whom she was already sharing it, was located right above the loggie of this huge Benedictine complex of Lombard foundation, which developed around three cloisters and a large garden at the bottom of the hill overlooking the city. A few years before, Armenia had inherited this cell from another nun, who had in turn inherited it from a third sister who had built it using generous private...

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