Table of Contents

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors



Introduction

 Unn Falkeid and Anna Wainwright



1 Birgitta and Pseudo-Birgitta: Textual Circulation and Perceptions of the Saint

 Brian Richardson



2 Making Birgitta Italian: The Time of Translation

 Jane Tylus



3 Prophetic Theology: The Santa Brigida da Paradiso in Florence

 Isabella Gagliardi



4 A Lineage of Apocalyptic Queens: The Portrayal of Birgitta of Sweden in Domenica Narducci’s Sermon to Caterina Cibo (1533)

 Clara Stella



5 The Fifteen Prayers Attributed to Birgitta and Their Circulation in Early Modern Italy: Private Devotion, Heterodoxy, and Censorship

 Marco Faini



6 Ventriloquizing Birgitta: The Saint’s Prophetic Voice During the Italian Wars

 Jessica Goethals and Anna Wainwright



7 The Semantics of Obedience. Birgittine Influences on Paola Antonia Negri’s Letters

 Eleonora Cappuccilli



8 Discourses on the Virgin Mary: Birgitta of Sweden and Chiara Matraini

 Eleonora Carinci



9 “Consenti, o pia, ch’in lagrimosi carmi …:” Birgitta in the Verse, Thought, and Artistic Commissions of Angelo Grillo

 Virginia Cox



10 “The Most Illustrious and Divine of All the Sibyls.” Saint Birgitta in the Prophetic Visions of Tommaso Campanella and Queen Cristina of Sweden

 Unn Falkeid



Appendix: One Life, Many Hagiographers: The Earliest Vitae of Birgitta of Sweden

 Silvia Nocentini



Bibliography

General Index

About the Author

Unn Falkeid, Ph.D (2006) is Professor of the History of Ideas at the University of Oslo. She has published extensively on medieval and early modern literature, including The Avignon Papacy Contested: An Intellectual History from Dante to Catherine of Siena (2017).



Anna Wainwright, Ph. D. (2017) is Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at the University of New Hampshire. She has published on gender and religion in the Italian Renaissance, and is co-editor of the volume Innovation in the Italian Counter-Reformation (2020).