Processo a Rolandina. La storia vera di una transgender condannata al rogo nella Venezia del XIV secolo

Venice, 1353. For years, a young woman has wandered through Rialto selling eggs from her baskets. But being a street vendor is not enough to survive, let alone to realize the dream of opening her own shop. For this reason, she also works as a prostitute. Despite this, being beautiful, kind, and always willing to help her neighbors, she is loved and respected. Then one day a charge of sodomy is brought against her, raising the suspicion that the young woman may not actually be female.

Thus begins a trial that becomes a true ordeal, because even in secular and enlightened Venice, sodomy is a crime—even between a male and a female. When it is later discovered that she is not fully female, there will be no mercy. For Rolandina—a real historical figure and the first documented transgender person in Christian Western history—this is the end.