A Companion to Catherine of Siena Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition A series of handbooks and reference works on the intellectual and religious life of Europe, 500–1800 Editor-in-Chief Christopher M. Bellitto (Kean University) VOLUME 32 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.nl/bcct A Companion to Catherine of Siena Edited by Carolyn Muessig George Ferzoco Beverly Mayne Kienzle LEIDEN • BOSTON 2012 Cover illustration: Giovanni di Paolo, “Saint Catherine of Siena”, c. 1462. This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A companion to Catherine of Siena / edited by Carolyn Muessig, George Ferzoco, Beverly Mayne Kienzle. p. cm. — (Brill’s companions to the Christian tradition ; v. 32) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-90-04-20555-0 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Catherine, of Siena, Saint, 1347–1380. I. Muessig, Carolyn. II. Ferzoco, George. III. Kienzle, Beverly Mayne. 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CONTENTS List of Illustrations, Tables, and Appendices .................................. vii Notes on Contributors ....................................................................... ix Acknowledgments ............................................................................... xiii Timeline for Catherine of Siena’s Life ............................................. xv Introduction ......................................................................................... 1 Carolyn Muessig 1. The Historical Reception of Catherine of Siena ....................... 23 F. Thomas Luongo 2. Female Urban Reclusion in Siena at the Time of Catherine of Siena ............................................................................................ 47 Allison Clark Thurber 3. Catherine of Siena and the Papacy ............................................. 73 Blake Beattie 4. Lacrime Cordiali: Catherine of Siena on the Value of Tears .... 99 Heather Webb 5. Denial as Action—Penance and its Place in the Life of Catherine of Siena ......................................................................... 113 Maiju Lehmijoki-Gardner 6. Catherine of Siena, Preaching, and Hagiography in Renaissance Tuscany ..................................................................... 127 Beverly Mayne Kienzle 7. Mystical Literacy: Writing and Religious Women in Late Medieval Italy ................................................................................. 155 Jane Tylus 8. TheProcesso Castellano and the Canonization of Catherine of Siena ............................................................................................ 185 George Ferzoco vi contents 9. Catherine of Siena in Late Medieval Sermons ........................ 203 Carolyn Muessig 10. Laude for Catherine of Siena ..................................................... 227 Eliana Corbari 11. The Iconography of Catherine of Siena’s Stigmata ................. 259 Diega Giunta 12. The Writings of Catherine of Siena: The Manuscript Tradition ........................................................................................ 295 Suzanne Noffke 13. TheLegenda maior of Catherine of Siena ............................... 339 Silvia Nocentini Manuscripts Cited ............................................................................... 359 Bibliography ......................................................................................... 363 Index ..................................................................................................... 385 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, TABLES, AND APPENDICES Chapter 2 (Allison Clark Thurber) Figure 1. Hermits in Siena, 1274–1375 ........................................... 51 Figure 2. Female vs. male hermits in Siena, 1337–1375: numbers by year ............................................................................. 64 Figure 3. Male vs. female hermits in Siena, 1337–1375: percent of total ................................................................................ 65 Table 1. Numbers of hermits in Italian cities in the 13th and 14th centuries as compared to Siena ........................................... 52 Table 2. Geographical descriptors used in the Biccherna and Casa della Misericordia records for locations of hermits in Siena by Terzo, 1275–1375 ............................................................ 56 Chapter 10 (Eliana Corbari) Appendix: Index of Laude and Hymns on Catherine of Siena ... 256 Chapter 11 (Diega Giunta) Figure 1. Giovanni di Paolo, Saint Catherine of Siena .................. 264 Figure 2. Giovanni di Paolo, Saint Catherine of Siena Receiving the Stigmata ..................................................................................... 265 Figure 3. Il Vecchietta, Saint Catherine of Siena ............................ 266 Figure 4. Francis of Assisi, Helen of Hungary, William of Strasbourg and Catherine of Siena Receiving the Stigmata ....... 276 Figure 5. Catherine of Siena Receiving the Stigmata ...................... 278 Figure 6. Giotto, Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata ............................................................................................ 282 Figure 7. Giotto, St Francis Receiving the Stigmata ....................... 283 Figure 8. Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata .......................... 284 Figure 9. Andrea di Bartolo, Polyptych of Catherine of Siena and Four Other Mantellate ............................................................ 286 Figure 10. Guidoccio Cozzarelli, The Stigmata of Catherine of Siena, from the Tavoletta di Biccherna ....................................... 289 Figure 11. Domenico Beccafumi (known as Il Mecarino), St Catherine of Siena Receiving the Stigmata between Saints Jerome and Benedict ....................................................................... 291 viii list of illustrations, tables, and appendices Figure 12. The Crucifixion with St Catherine of Siena and the Blessed Margaret of Hungary .......................................................... 293 Chapter 12 (Suzanne Noffke) Table 1. Occurrence and sequence of Orazioni in manuscripts and printed editions ....................................................................... 332 Appendix: The Major Manuscripts of the Works of Catherine of Siena ............................................................................................. 335 Chapter 13 (Silvia Nocentini) Figure 1. Stemmatic tree of the Legenda maior ............................. 350 Appendix 1. List of Manuscripts of the Legenda maior ............... 352 Appendix 2. Textual Examples of the Stemmatic Tree ................. 354 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Blake Beattie received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1992 and has taught at the University of Louisville since 1994. His interests include the Avignon papacy, 14th-century Italy, and curial preaching at Avignon. He is the author of Angelus Pacis. The Legation of Cardinal Giovanni Gaetano Orsini, 1326–1334 (Leiden, 2007). Eliana Corbari is a Research Fellow, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Bristol, UK. She is a member of the International Medieval Sermon Studies Society and the Catholic Theo- logical Association of Great Britain. She completed her Ph.D. in Theol- ogy and Religious Studies, University of Bristol, under the supervision of Carolyn Muessig. She is currently working on the publication of her doctoral thesis, “Vernacular Theology. Dominican Sermons and Audiences in Late Medieval Italy,” which was awarded the University of Bristol prize for best thesis in 2009. George Ferzoco, Teaching Fellow and Research Fellow in the Uni- versity of Bristol’s Theology and Religious Studies Department, works primarily on verbal and visual propaganda in the later Middle Ages, especially in the context of Italy. His publications include: Il murale di Massa Marittima/The Massa Marittima Mural (Florence, 2005) and Medieval Monastic Education, co-edited with Carolyn Muessig (London, 2000). Diega Giunta is President of Rome’s Centro Internazionale di Studi Cateriniani, which was founded in 1940. She has published exten- sively on Catherine of Siena, and her works include Iconografia di s. Caterina da Siena, vol. 1: L’immagine, co-edited with Lidia Bianchi (Rome, 1988); and Luoghi cateriniani di Roma (with G. Cavallini), 2nd ed. (Rome, 2004). Beverly Mayne Kienzle, John H. Morison Professor of the Prac- tice in Latin and Romance Languages, Harvard Divinity School, has published several books on medieval sermons and preaching, includ- ing: Hildegard of Bingen and her Gospel Homilies (Turnhout, 2009); x notes on contributors Hildegard of Bingen, Expositiones euangeliorum, co-edited with Carolyn Muessig (Turnhout, 2007); and The Sermon. Typologie des