Il libro de’ diversi stati delle persone e della divina providensia

giulia murgia

2025-01-01

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Abstract

This contribution offers the transcription of a selection of pages of the MS Roma, CISC, 1, an important codex that transmits the Dialogo della divina provvidenza or Libro della divina dottrina by Caterina of Siena. The MS Roma, CISC, 1 is an unpublished manuscript, in vernacular, which is part of the complex and branched stratification of the witnesses that constitute the tradition of the work, unanimously considered a masterpiece of medieval mysticism, which earned the saint of Fontebranda the title of Doctor of the Church.