Libro de la vita mirabile & dottrina santa de la beata Caterinetta da Genoa : nel quale si contiene vna vtile & catholica dimostratione & dechiaratione del purgatorio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marabotto, Cattaneo, active approximately 1500.

Contributor:

Vernazza, Ettore, 1470-1524.

Vernazza, Battistina, Sister, 1497-1587.

Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Catherine, of Genoa, Saint, 1447-1510.

Catherine.

Purgatory--Early works to 1800.

Purgatory.

Theological anthropology--Christianity--Early works to 1800.

Theological anthropology.

Theological anthropology--Christianity.

Penn Provenance:

Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909 (autograph) (bookplate)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered leaves, 271 leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf : illustrations ; 16 cm (8vo)

Place of Publication:

[Genoa] : Stampata in Genoua per Antonio Bellono ..., MDLI [1551]

Notes:

The vita was written by Cattaneo Marabotto and Ettore Vernaccia. Cf. Acta sanctorum, v. 45, p. 124.

The dialogue of soul and body is generally regarded as the work of Saint Catherine, but is also ascribed to Battistina Vernazza. Cf. LC46-5773 in NUC pre-1956.

"Dialogo" has caption title which reads: Dialogo della detta Madonna Caterinetta tra l'anima & il corpo in sieme co[n] l'amor propio reduto poi al spirito co[n] la humanita.

Imprint from colophon.

Signatures: [Maltese cross]⁸ A-2L⁸.

Woodcut title vignette, initials and illustrations.

Errata on leaf [Maltese cross]7v.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy bound in half vellum over decorative paper boards; ms. title ("Vita Di S. Caterine Da Genoua") and date on spine; all edges stippled brown.

Penn Libraries copy: title leaf torn and mended at outer margin; hole in upper portion of title leaf mended without loss of text.

Penn Libraries copy has Henry Charles Lea's bookplate on back pastedown and autograph (1890) on front free endpaper; bookseller's printed description of various editions of this work affixed to front pastedown; ms. notes in Lea's hand concerning St. Catherine of Genoa on front free endpaper; imprint place and date supplied in ms. on title leaf; illegible former ownership stamp at foot of title leaf; a few ms. marginal notes in text.

Contains:

Catherine, of Genoa, Saint, 1447-1510. Trattato del Purgatorio.

Catherine, of Genoa, Saint, 1447-1510. Dialogo.

OCLC:

259266948