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Vita della Venerabile Serva di Dio Suor Veronica Giuliani Cappuccina Estratta da' Processi Apostolici, e da altri documenti autentici Dedicata all'Eminentissimo Principe Andrea Corsini Cardinale di Santa Chiesa Vescovo di Sabina e Prefetto

Large 4to. pp. (XVI), 216, 176, plus 3 engraved plates signed by [Tomasso] Piroli. Bound in contemporary vellum over boards. Red wax ex-librises on front pastedown and final leaf, most likely a cardinal’s arms. Very rare sole edition of the first ‘official’ biography of Suor Veronica Giuliani (1660-1727), prepared from the documents used in her beatification process by the promoter of her cause, Giovanni Giacomo Romano. There seems to have been a flurry of interest in Giuliani – whose stigmatic wounds were subject to rigorous testing - around the latter half of the 18th century, perhaps in reaction to the emergent ‘Italian Enlightenment’ and its skepticism to mystical experiences. The compassionate Giuliani suffered a painful illness early on in life, which resolved itself when her father finally permitted her not to seek a husband and instead to enter the local Capuchin convent of Città di Castello in Umbria, where she took the name Veronica in memory of the Passion. The imprint of a crown of thorns appeared on her forehead in 1694 and further stigmatic markings appeared in 1697; the suspicious local bishop kept Giuliani isolated from her sisters and under strict observation until

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