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The letters of Catherine Benincasa, commonly known as St. Catherine of Siena, have become an Italian classic; yet perhaps the first thing in them to strike a reader is their unliterary character. He only will value them who cares to overhear the impetuous outpourings of the heart and mind of an unlettered daughter of the people, who was also ...
Feb 18, 2013 · With her remarkable labor of love now complete, Sr. Suzanne Noffke has fully launched St. Catherine of Siena into the English-speaking world. The four-volume annotated translation is more than a translation; it is a comprehensive modern edition that places Catherine’s almost 400 letters in chronological order.
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On March 25th, Catherine, and a twin-sister who dies at once, are born in the Strada dell' Oca, near the fountain of Fontebranda, Siena. She is the youngest of the twenty-five children of Jacopo Benincasa, a dyer, and Lapa, his wife. 1353-4. As a child, Catherine is peculiarly joyous and charming.
Catherine of Siena. Caterina di Jacopo di Benincasa (25 March 1347 – 29 April 1380), known as Catherine of Siena ( Italian: Caterina da Siena ), was an Italian mystic and pious laywoman who engaged in papal and Italian politics through extensive letter-writing and advocacy. Canonized in 1461, she is revered as a saint and as a Doctor of the ...
to monna catarina of the hospital and to giovanna di capo in siena to monna alessa clothed with the habit of saint dominic, when she was at rocca to gregory xi to raimondo of capua of the order of the preachers to urban vi to her spiritual children in siena to brother william and to messer matteo of the misericordia
TO MONNA ALESSA DEI SARACINI. The young widow of noble family to whom this letter was written was the most cherished among Catherine's women friends. She seems, as often happens with the chosen companion of a fervent and powerful nature, to have been a person simple, lovable, and quietly wise.
Catherine of Siena, 2000-2008, The Letters of Catherine of Siena, translated and edited by Suzanne Noffke. 4 vols. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. This is the best English translation of Catherine’s 383 letters and the first edition where the letters are published in historical rather than numerical order.
