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Compendio Della Vita, Virtù, e Miracoli della Ven. Madre Suor Caterina Paluzzi Fondatrice del Monastero di Morlupo dell’Ordine di S. Domenico Composto da Suor Angela Anastasia Tosi, e dedicato Al benignissimo, e dilettissimo Sposa Gesù Figl

8vo. pp. (12), 140. Bound in contemporary vellum. Ownership inscription from the Dominican Friar Pius van den Dyck of Belgium (1740); 19th century stamps from three American Redemptorist institutions, a partially effaced one, probably from the St. Alphonsus Church in New Orleans, and one from the library of an eccentric Italo-Spanish nobleman, ‘Principe Pietro Amoroso d’Aragona’, d. 1959. Very rare sole edition of this biography of a Dominican mystic, Caterina Paluzzi (1573-1645), a woman with humble origins who with support from Federigo Borromeo and the Sfondrati and Orisini families founded a convent in Morlupo in 1620, just north of Rome. Like many religiosas of this era, Paluzzi experimented with fasting and penance, but was especially known for her visions and ecstasies; despite her friends in high places, she was denied beatification after her death as the Counter-Reformation Church began to take a less charitable view of such women. In addition to the usual ‘Protesta’ found at the beginning of a hagiography recognizing the decree of Urban VIII against unverified miracles, it is interesting to note that Tosi appends a further ‘Nuova Protesta’ on the very last page of the wor

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