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Autobiography of an aspiring saint / Cecilia Ferrazzi ; transcribed, translated, and edited by Anne Jacobson Schutte.
LIBRA BX4705.F48 A3 1996b
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ferrazzi, Cecilia, 1609-1684.
- Series:
- Other voice in early modern Europe
- The other voice in early modern Europe
- Standardized Title:
- Autobiografia di una santa mancata. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Ferrazzi, Cecilia, 1609-1684.
- Ferrazzi, Cecilia.
- Catholics--Italy--Venice--Biography.
- Catholics.
- Inquisition.
- Italy--Venice.
- Women--Italy--Venice--Biography.
- Women.
- Inquisition--Italy--Venice--17th century--Sources.
- Venice (Italy)--Biography.
- Venice (Italy).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxix, 101 pages : map, facsimile ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1996]
- Summary:
- Financially unable to enter the convent, Cecilia Ferrazzi (1609-1684) refused to marry, and as a single laywoman set out in pursuit of holiness. Eventually, she improvised a vocation: running houses of refuge for young women at risk of being lured into prostitution. Despite the socially valuable service she was providing, not everyone was convinced that she was a genuine favorite of God. Denounced to the Venetian Inquisition in 1664, she requested and obtained the unprecedented opportunity to defend herself through a presentation of her life story.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 91-96) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0226244466
- 0226244474
- OCLC:
- 35008097
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