The scourge of demons : possession, lust, and witchcraft in a seventeenth-century Italian convent / Jeffrey R. Watt.

Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2009.

xii, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-290) and index.

Introduction : nuns, witchcraft, and the inquisition -- Female religious, claustration, and Santa Chiara of Carpi -- The outbreak and maleficia -- The confessor and love magic -- The exorcists and the demons -- Sisters Dealta and Ippolita under attack -- Bellacappa's defense -- The waning of the possessions.