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Journal Article
Laura Battiferra’s “Letter from Lentulus” and the Likeness of Christ in Renaissance Italy
2019
Overview
Kirkham focuses on the \"Letter from Lentulus\" by poet Laura Battiferra degli Ammannati (1523-89) and the likeness of Christ in Renaissance Italy. Laura's ternario, surviving in a single late sixteenth-century manuscript transcribed by a Jesuit father, surfaces from oblivion to join Christ's portraits in their historical chain and opens a diorama on Catholic Reformation culture. Just before her \"Misteri della vita di Cristo,\" Laura sets into the manuscript her poems on the discovery of the True Cross and Santa Cristina. Immediately after that comes the \"Letter,\" the last of the poems in the Casanatense manuscript dedicated to Christ. Planned as her final book, this codex in its two-part division expresses both literary imitation and real life evolution. During this period she must have written her only surviving prose work, L'orazione sopra il Natale di Nostro Signore (Orison on the nativity of our Lord), an impassioned meditation that takes as its point of departure Loyola's Spiritual Exercises. Here, too, both in time and in tenor, belongs her contribution to the long history of the \"Letter from Lentulus,\" a quintessential relic of Catholic Reformation piety.
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University of Chicago Press,The University of Chicago Press
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