Saint Teresa of Avila. In 1665, an Inquisition tribunal ordered that Ferrazzi be imprisoned for seven years. However, she was released in 1667, possibly due to an appeal to the Vatican on her behalf. Ferrazzi may have developed a respiratory ailment during her period of imprisonment, as she died in 1684. Scholars Anne Jacobson Schutte, Cristina Mazzoni, Elizabeth Horodowich, and others have asserted that her story may demonstrate how Counter-Reformation Catholicism tried to control and regulate access to potential sainthood and preserve the constraints of Counter-Reformation gender roles for women and men. References Further reading Sherrill Cohen: The Evolution of Women's Asylums Since 1500: New York: Oxford University Press: 1992. Mary Perry: "Beatas and the Inquisition in Early Modern Spain" in Stephen Haliczar (ed) Inquisition and Society in Early Modern Europe: London: Croom Helm: 1987: Brian Pullan: Rich and Poor in Renaissance Venice: The Social Institutions of A Catholic State: Oxford: Basil Blackwell: 1971: 0674948343 Anne Jacobson Schutte: "Discernment and Discipline: Giorgo Polacci and Religious Women in Early Modern Italy" in William Connell (ed) Culture and Self in Renaissance Europe: Berkeley: University of California Press: 1997. Anne Jacobson Schutte: "Suffering From the Stone: The Accounts of Michel de Montaigne and Cecilia Ferrazzi," Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 64, no. 1, (2002): 21-36. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20680374 Perez Zagorin: Ways of Lying: Dissimulation, Persecution and Conformity in Early Modern Europe: Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press: 1990: See also Maria Domitilla Galluzzi Teresa of Avila Mary Magdalene de'Pazzi Juana Inés de la Cruz 1609 births 1684 deaths