Maria Maddalena De' Pazzi: Selected RevelationsIn one of the only English translations available, here are the mystical visions of Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi (1566-1606), one of the most original woman mystics of the Renaissance. However, until now she has curiously been neglected by scholars of Christian history and Italian literature alike. Editor and translator Armando Maggi rectifies this in an utterly fascinating volume of the Classics of Western Spirituality(TM). Soon after entering a convent in Florence, where she spent all of her adult years in strict enclosure, Maria Maddalena experienced visions in which she spoke to the Trinity, in particular to Christ. She did not intend to communicate these to an outside audience, and they were transcribed by her fellow nuns. Maggi offers readers here a selection from the whole corpus of Maria Maddalena's visions as contained in the manuscripts The Forty Days, The Dialogues, Revelations and Knowledge and The Probations. Unlike most other mystical works in the Western tradition Maria Maddalena's visions have a distinctly oral nature. Maria Maddalena's mysticism lies in her interpretation of oral language. She believed that God wanted her to speak his being, i.e., to utter his being through her voice. The transcriptions of her visions, in all their disorder, theatricality and passion, offer a gripping experience of Christian spirituality. Historians and theologians, especially of the Renaissance, will welcome this outstanding contribution to literature on mysticism and spirituality. + |
Contents
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24852 | 92 |
Selections from The Dialogues | 95 |
Dialogue 36 Participation in Jesus Passion | 97 |
Dialogue 39 Marriage to Jesus | 124 |
Dialogue 43 The Regeneration of the Church | 135 |
Dialogue 44 On the Humanity of the Word | 161 |
Dialogue 45 An Inner Test | 180 |
Selections from Probation | 287 |
Excerpts from the Devils Temptations | 289 |
Volume Two | 301 |
Selection from Revelations and Knowledge | 327 |
Notes to Introduction and Text | 330 |
Bibliography | 362 |
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Other editions - View all
Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi: The Making of a Counter-Reformation Saint Clare Copeland Limited preview - 2016 |
Maria Maddalena De' Pazzi: Selected Revelations Saint Maria Maddalena De' Pazzi Limited preview - 2000 |
Maria Maddalena De' Pazzi: Selected Revelations Saint Maria Maddalena De' Pazzi No preview available - 2000 |
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Page 38 - Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
Page 27 - Then he took the bread, said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them, saying, This is my body, which will be given for you; do this in memory of me.
Page 42 - Yahweh God fashioned man of dust from the soil. Then he breathed into his nostrils a breath of life, and thus man became a living being.
Page 13 - For it is commanded to us that we should love one another, but it is to be asked whether man is to be loved by man for his own sake or for the sake of something else. If for his own sake, we enjoy him; if for the sake of something else, we use him. But I think that man is to be loved for the sake of something else. In that which is to be loved for its own sake the blessed life resides; and if we do not have it for the present, the hope for it now consoles us. But "cursed be the man that trusteth...
Page 12 - Nor is there any other reason for signifying, or for giving signs, except for bringing forth and transferring to another mind the action of the mind in the person who makes the sign.
Page 39 - ... nothingness into the clarification of God, who sees himself with the eyes of his majesty — who at this point has clarified her.
Page 13 - For we are commanded to love one another: but it is a question whether man is to be loved by man for his own sake, or for the sake of something else. If it is for his own sake, we enjoy him; if it is for the sake of something else, we use him.