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<p>4to. (XXIV) pp including engraved portrait, 302 pp, (1). Contemporary velum. Sole edition. An authoritative biography published in celebration of the saint's canonization a year previously. Sandrini even includes a lengthy 'Catalogo degli Scrittori della Vita della nostra Santa' – a testament to the remarkable speed with which these biographies could be produced following the news of a successful canonization process. The portrait depicts Caterina tenderly clasping a small Christ on the Cross, who returns her embrace
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Sandrini, Domenico M. (Domenico Maria)</div>
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