Creative Women in Medieval and Early Modern Italy: A Religious and Artistic Renaissance Book

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	Preface and Acknowledgments
1	Introduction: Women's Creativity in Religious Context	1
2	The Feminine Mind in Medieval Mysticism	19
3	The Authorial Role of Brother A. in the Composition of Angela of Foligno's Revelations	34
4	Women and the Production of Religious Literature in the Vernacular, 1300-1500	64
5	Urban Spaces, Women's Networks, and the Lay Apostolate in the Siena of Catherine Benincasa	105
6	Chiara Gambacorta of Pisa as Patroness of the Arts	120
7	Piety and Patronage: Women and the Early Jesuits	157
8	Per Speculum in Enigmate: Failed Saints, Artists, and Self-Construction of the Female Body in Early Modern Italy	185
9	The Commentary on the Rule of Clare of Assisi by Maria Domitilla Galluzzi	201
10	The Mystic Humanism of Maria Maddalena de'Pazzi (1566-1607)	212
11	Ursula and Catherine: The Marriage of Virgins in the Sixteenth Century	237
12	Suor Maria Clemente Ruoti, Playwright and Academician	281
13	The Making of Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana's Componimenti Musicali (1623)	297
14	Four Views of Milanese Nuns' Music	324
	Notes on the Contributors	343
	Index of Modern Authors	345
	General Index	351