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Opere della B. Maria Maddalena de Pazzi Carmelitana. Raccolte dal M.R. Padre Maestro Fra Lorenzo Maria Brancaccio Carmelitano dell'Osservanza di Santa Maria della Vita in Napoli. Con due Prediche in lode dell'istessa Beata

4to. pp (16), 524, 50 [1 blank leaf], 15 [1 bl.], 28. Contemporary parchment over flexible boards, manuscript title on backstrip. Woodcut initials. First edition of a curated collection of the utterances of the Florentine mystic and saint Maria Maddalena de’ Pazzi (1566-1607). The frequent and often daylong trances, visions, raptures, losses of consciousness, and occasional convulsions of de’ Pazzi commenced, the story goes, during a period of illness, in 1584, on the day she took the veil, having entered the Carmelite monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli two years earlier. What were later collected as her manuscript writings were in fact systematic written records, made by teams of her fellow nuns, of her trance-induced orations. Far from disjointed ramblings, her oracular pronouncements revealed a cohesive quasi-Quietist conception of the path toward renovation of the Church and of monastic life. She modelled the latter goal especially through intense personal asceticism, including simple clothing, bare feet, fasting and other more extreme physical mortifications, considered excessive by Church authorities but which were allowed to continue in part thanks to the steadfast suppor

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