... no longer existed. Petrarch Rerum familiarum libri correspondence with Cardinal Giovanni Colonna Roman Empire and Germanic barbarism cultural politics Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed...

... rather than Martha the symbol of the active life, as she associates Mary with the reformed prostitute Mary Magdalene and reflects on her career as a preacher in Marseilles following Christ’s resurrection. In another letter to Cardinal Giovanni Morone, Colonna directly addresses the transformation...

... was to “make a holocaust of themselves to God,” as the Florentine Grand Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici asserted in 1569.38 The Venetian Patri- arch Giovanni Tiepolo added a civic and familial twist, asserting that nuns made “a gift of their liberty . . . not just to God, but to their native land, to the world...

...  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 38.3 / 2008 were sacrificed in the cauldrons of creative druggists. Giovanni Marinello recommended, for example, the powdered testicles of a cock drunk with wine before entering the bedroom.31 A woman specializing in the secrets of love, Caterina da...