{"id":11358,"date":"2025-02-14T12:12:32","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T11:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.museoduomomonza.it\/the-nun-of-monza\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T11:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T10:50:12","slug":"the-nun-of-monza","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.museoduomomonza.it\/en\/the-nun-of-monza\/","title":{"rendered":"The nun of Monza"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An emblematic figure of the seventeenth-century Monza, Sister Virginia Maria de Leyva &#8211; the Manzonian Gertrude &#8211; vividly embodies in the tormented events of her existence a feminine universe linked to the phenomenon of forced marriages. <\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"461\" src=\"https:\/\/www.museoduomomonza.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/monaca-di-monza-1200x461.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8946\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.museoduomomonza.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/monaca-di-monza-1200x461.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.museoduomomonza.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/monaca-di-monza-600x231.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.museoduomomonza.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/monaca-di-monza-768x295.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.museoduomomonza.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/monaca-di-monza-1536x591.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.museoduomomonza.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/monaca-di-monza.jpg 1597w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<p>Opposed and fought by the ecclesiastical institutions, but pursued with tenacity by the noble families, concerned to safeguard the integrity of the heritage, these monachy constitute a widespread phenomenon and also investigated by historical research, <em>topos<\/em> iterated in the literature up to our days, several times proposed in a scandalous key with mediocre artistic effects and little relevance to the complexity of the phenomenon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An emblematic figure of the seventeenth-century Monza, Sister Virginia Maria de Leyva &#8211; the Manzonian Gertrude &#8211; vividly embodies in the tormented events of her existence a feminine universe linked to the phenomenon of forced marriages. Opposed and fought by the ecclesiastical institutions, but pursued with tenacity by the noble families, concerned to safeguard the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11197,"parent":0,"menu_order":36,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tipo-pagina":[115,116],"class_list":["post-11358","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museoduomomonza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museoduomomonza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museoduomomonza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museoduomomonza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museoduomomonza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.museoduomomonza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museoduomomonza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museoduomomonza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"tipo-pagina","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museoduomomonza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tipo-pagina?post=11358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}