convent

The convent, obviously, but also the court—and even her unrequited longing for the elusive lady of her sonnets.

The Venetian police force is headquartered in the former convent, Santa Zaccaria, another site that has seen more exciting days.

His memoirs led Campagnol to a convent at the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli on Murano, where Mr. Casanova had a lover.

As the story goes, many Venetian nuns were noble women forced into the convent to save their families from bankruptcy.

Pulcini had locked the front door of the convent, but now he found it open.

During the whole day there was an incessant fusillade, the rebelsʼ chief stronghold being the Recoleto Convent.

They buried her body in the Recollect convent, with the greatest pomp possible.

There were five men and three women in the circus troupe, and among the four nuns was the grave reverend mother of a convent.

With them she spent a year, in a seclusion from the world almost as entire as that which she found in the solitude of the convent.

Her reception at the convent, where she was already held in such high esteem, was cordial in the extreme.