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Camilla Battista da Varano (1458–1524) was born in Camerino, in the Marche region of Italy, and was elected abbess of the convent of Santa Maria Nova in Camerino on four occasions. She was beatified in 1843 and canonized in 2010. William V. Hudon is professor of history, emeritus at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania and the author of Theatine Spirituality: Selected Writings and Marcello Cervini and Ecclesiastical Government in Tridentine Italy.
A collection of influential spiritual writings by a fifteenth-century Italian nun. ""Illegitimate daughter of a duke, abbess, mystic: Camilla Battista da Varano lived a tempestuous life during tempestuous times in Italy, marked by political unrest and the arrival of the Reformation. And not even her withdrawal to a Clarissan convent over her father’s protests could still the dark nights of her soul. Canonized in 2010, Varano left behind a considerable body of writings in both Italian and Latin that is now available in English thanks to historian William Hudon’s meticulous edition and translation. Those writings include poems, prayers, spiritual autobiographies, and her audacious Mental Sufferings of Jesus during His Passion in Gethsemane—so audacious that she strategically claimed that she had simply transcribed the words of another nun. Her rescripting of gender norms, her deep self-awareness, her interest in other women writers: all make of Varano a remarkable figure whose defiance of stereotypes complicates our understanding of early modern spirituality."" -- Jane Tylus, Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Italian and Professor of Comparative Literature, Yale University
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