The essay examines the many voices of dissent that rose in Naples against the bull Circa pastoralis published by Pius V in 1566. The papal bull stipulated that all monks should be kept in close enclosure. The ribellion became especially from the monks of S. Gregorio Armeno and S. Patrizia. They were jealous guardians of their prerogatives and feminine exponents of the least accommodating fringes of the nobility Neapolitan. Many monks abandoned the convents to avoid rules; others were pushed away others were pushed away under the threat of weapons of by the secular arm of the viceroy. Some of them made the way of tribunals, both civil and ecclesiastical. In the records of these processes, the memories of their resistance to a norm would address then a more rigid monastic life, as well as the family relationships between and within monasteries.