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Saint Birgitta of Sweden (d. 1373), one of the most famous visionary women of the late Middle Ages, lived in Rome for the last 23 years of her life. Much of her extensive literary work was penned there. Her Celestial Revelations circulated widely from the late 14th century to the 17th century, copied in Italian scriptoria, translated into vernacular, and printed in several Latin and Italian editions. In the same centuries, an extraordinary number of women writers across the peninsula were publishing their work. What echoes might we find of the foreign widow’s prophetic voice in their texts? This volume offers innovative investigations, written by an interdisciplinary group of experts, of the profound impact of Birgitta of Sweden in Renaissance Italy.
Contributors include: Brian Richardson, Jane Tylus, Isabella Gagliardi, Clara Stella, Marco Faini, Jessica Goethals, Anna Wainwright, Eleonora Cappuccilli, Eleonora Carinci, Virginia Cox, Unn Falkeid, and Silvia Nocentini.
Saint Birgitta of Sweden (d. 1373), one of the most famous visionary women of the late Middle Ages, lived in Rome for the last 23 years of her life. Much of her extensive literary work was penned there. Her Celestial Revelations circulated widely from the late 14th century to the 17th century, copied in Italian scriptoria, translated into vernacular, and printed in several Latin and Italian editions. In the same centuries, an extraordinary number of women writers across the peninsula were publishing their work. What echoes might we find of the foreign widow’s prophetic voice in their texts? This volume offers innovative investigations, written by an interdisciplinary group of experts, of the profound impact of Birgitta of Sweden in Renaissance Italy.
Contributors include: Brian Richardson, Jane Tylus, Isabella Gagliardi, Clara Stella, Marco Faini, Jessica Goethals, Anna Wainwright, Eleonora Cappuccilli, Eleonora Carinci, Virginia Cox, Unn Falkeid, and Silvia Nocentini.
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Unn Falkeid and Anna Wainwright
1 Birgitta and Pseudo-Birgitta: Textual Circulation and Perceptions
of the Saint
Brian Richardson
2 Making Birgitta Italian: The Time of Translation
Jane Tylus
3 Prophetic Theology: The Santa Brigida da Paradiso in Florence
Isabella Gagliardi
4 A Lineage of Apocalyptic Queens: The Portrayal of Birgitta of
Sweden in Domenica Narducci’s Sermon to Caterina Cibo (1533)
Clara Stella
5 The Fifteen Prayers Attributed to Birgitta and Their Circulation
in Early Modern Italy: Private Devotion, Heterodoxy, and
Censorship
Marco Faini
6 Ventriloquizing Birgitta: The Saint’s Prophetic Voice During the
Italian Wars
Jessica Goethals and Anna Wainwright
7 The Semantics of Obedience. Birgittine Influences on Paola
Antonia Negri’s Letters
Eleonora Cappuccilli
8 Discourses on the Virgin Mary: Birgitta of Sweden and Chiara
Matraini
Eleonora Carinci
9 “Consenti, o pia, ch’in lagrimosi carmi …:” Birgitta in the
Verse, Thought, and Artistic Commissions of Angelo Grillo
Virginia Cox
10 “The Most Illustrious and Divine of All the Sibyls.” Saint
Birgitta in the Prophetic Visions of Tommaso Campanella and Queen
Cristina of Sweden
Unn Falkeid
Appendix: One Life, Many Hagiographers: The Earliest Vitae of
Birgitta of Sweden
Silvia Nocentini
Bibliography
General Index
Unn Falkeid, Ph.D (2006) is Professor of the History of Ideas at
the University of Oslo. She has published extensively on medieval
and early modern literature, including The Avignon Papacy
Contested: An Intellectual History from Dante to Catherine of Siena
(2017).
Anna Wainwright, Ph. D. (2017) is Assistant Professor of Italian
Studies at the University of New Hampshire. She has published on
gender and religion in the Italian Renaissance, and is co-editor of
the volume Innovation in the Italian Counter-Reformation (2020).
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