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The Spiritual Life and Other Writings : Volume 103, Paperback / softback Book

The Spiritual Life and Other Writings : Volume 103 Paperback / softback

Edited by William V. Hudon

Part of the The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series series

Paperback / softback

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A new edition of all of de Varano's known works, several of which have never before appeared in English. Camilla Battista da Varano (1458–1524) was a Franciscan nun and the author of profound spiritual writings in both prose and verse.

Raised in the princely household of Camerino in north-central Italy, she put her thorough humanist education to use explaining her own spiritual experience and delivering advice to others.

Varano composed ecstatic revelations, prayers, poems, hagiography, spiritual direction, and commentary on convent legislation.

She drew on a wide variety of sources, including scripture and Church Fathers, plus popular literature and proverbs.

Varano was an erudite woman of considerable complexity, defying many of the commonplace images we associate with religious women of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.  

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