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Article: The Saintly Politics of Catherine of Siena.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 22, 2007
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F. Thomas Luongo. The Saintly Politics of Catherine of Siena.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006. viii + 234 pp. index. illus. map. chron. bibl. $39.95. ISBN: 0-8014-4395-4.
"In restoring Catherine to her own history, I hope I have begun to return the pen to her hand" (208). The sentence with which F. Thomas Luongo ends his book is a good starting point for illustrating the dual objective of his research: to describe the saintliness of a person and the historical context in which she revealed herself, using her writings as the main source for reconstructing her story, and to interpret female saintliness by constructing models of figures assembled ...