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<p>4to. (8), [121] pp, (6). Contemporary velum. Sole edition. One of the earliest biographies of the medieval Dominican nun, famed for her miracleworking during her lifetime. Against all conventions, she was allowed to enter a convent at the tender age of 9, and became Bursar at the age of 14. She is linked to the other great Dominican female saint Catherine of Siena by her earliest biographer, Raimondo da Capua, who was Catherine's spiritual confessor. Although Agnes remained uncanonized until 1726, she is already referred to here as a saint; she never attained the fame of Catherine, however
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Mariani, Lorenzo Sordini</div>
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