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A new edition of all of de Varano's known works, several of which have never before appeared in English. Camilla Battista da Varano (1458–1524) was a Franciscan nun and the author of profound spiritual writings in both prose and verse. Raised in the princely household of Camerino in north-central Italy, she put her thorough humanist education to use explaining her own spiritual experience and delivering advice to others. Varano composed ecstatic revelations, prayers, poems, hagiography, spiritual direction, and commentary on convent legislation. She drew on a wide variety of sources, including scripture and Church Fathers, plus popular literature and proverbs. Varano was an erudite woman of considerable complexity, defying many of the commonplace images we associate with religious women of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.  

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A collection of influential spiritual writings by a fifteenth-century Italian nun.

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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.  

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