Benedetta Carlini: Lesbian Nun of Renaissance Italy

by Rosemary Rowe, Daniela Domenici (Translator)

Benedetta Carlini: Lesbian Nun of Renaissance Italy!! is a full-length play based on the true stories of Benedetta Carlini, an Italian abbess in the 1600s who seduced another nun while claiming to be a mystic, and Clare, a 1990s college student, who, while struggling with her own sexual identity, becomes obsessed with Benedetta’s story. This book contains the English script as well as a new Italian translation by Daniela Domenici.

153 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published September 10, 2019

About the author

Rosemary Rowe is a Vancouver-based playwright, essayist and blogger. Recently, her essay Aspiring Lesbian Aunt, was published in A Family by Any Other Name: Exploring Queer Relationships; her cabaret piece Anne & Diana Were TOTALLY DOING IT was published in Queering the Way: The Loud and Queer Anthology; and her latest play, The Good Bride, premiered at Northern Light Theatre in 2015. Rose’s blog CreampuffRevolution.com landed her a spot as national finalist on CBC's inaugural Canada Writes – on the same day as her wedding to her lovely wife Kate. Rose did not win on the radio…but she did win at love.

Reviews

[Rosemary · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wrote this play in the 1990s and I still laugh at my own jokes. Even funnier in Italian!