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- Title
La costruzione di un profilo di santità femminile nella Firenze del XVII secolo.
- Authors
Scattigno, Anna
- Abstract
The canonization proceedings for Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi, Caterina de' Ricci and Domenica da Paradiso began in Florence in the first half of the seventeenth century. These proceedings helped to delineate a profile of female holiness inspired also by the issues of the reform of the religious life and of the monastic profession. They also contributed to the renewal of the Florentine church's tradition of holiness which was still marked, at that time, by the figure of Girolamo Savonarola. The nuns were direct witnesses or keepers of the oral tradition fuelled on their own female communities. Thus their memories and the way in which they constructed those memories played a crucial role in the efforts to fix the traits of a female holiness which on the one hand was consistent with the new post-Council of Trent model and, on the other, still maintained its unique differences.
- Subjects
FLORENCE (Italy); CANONIZATION; DE' Pazzi, Maria Maddalena, Saint, 1566-1607; CATERINA de' Ricci, Saint, 1522-1590; CHRISTIAN women saints; SAVONAROLA, Girolamo, 1452-1498; HISTORY; CHURCH history
- Publication
Annali di Storia di Firenze, 2013, Vol 8, p145
- ISSN
1827-6946
- Publication type
Article