Catherine of Siena: The Creation of a Cult

352 Pages·2013·23.472 MB·English

by  Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Gabriela Signori

Catherine of Siena
MEDIEVAL WOMEN: TEXTS AND CONTEXTS
Editorial Board under the auspices of the
School of Historical Studies, Monash University
Constant Mews, Monash University
Gabriela Signori, Universität Konstanz
Nicholas Watson, Harvard University
Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, University of Pittsburgh
Miri Rubin, Queen Mary University of London
Claire Waters, University of Virginia
Jeffrey Hamburger, Harvard University
Anneke Mulder-Bakker, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Juliette D’Or, Université de Liège
Previously published volumes in this series are listed at the back of the book.
Volume 13
Catherine of Siena
The Creation of a Cult
Edited by
Jeffrey F. Hamburger
and Gabriela Signori
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Catherine of Siena : the creation of a cult. -- (Medieval women : texts and contexts ; 13)
1. Catherine, of Siena, Saint, 1347-1380--Cult.
2. Catherine, of Siena, Saint, 1347-1380--Cult--History.
I. Series
II. Hamburger, Jeffrey F., 1957- editor of compilation.
III. Signori, Gabriela, 1960- editor of compilation.
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Contents
Illustrations vii
The Making of a Saint: Catherine of Siena,
Tommaso Caffarini, and the Others — Introduction
JEFFREy F. HAMBURGER and GABRIELA SIGNORI 1
Canonization, Cult, and Relics
Many Strategies and One Goal: The Difficult Road
to the Canonization of Catherine of Siena
OTFRIED KRAFFT 25
‘Sacra lipsana’: The Relics of Catherine of Siena
in the Context of Propagation, Piety, and Community
MICHAEL HOHLSTEIN 47
Catherine of Siena and the Italian Public
GABRIELLA ZARRI 69
Manuscripts and Prints
The Transmission of the Upper German Life of Catherine of Siena
THOMAS BRAKMANN 83
Humanist Lives of Catherine of Siena:
Latin Prose Narratives on the Italian Peninsula (1461–1505)
ALISON FRAZIER 109
vi Contents
Saintly Authorship in the Italian Renaissance:
The Quattrocento Reception of Catherine of Siena’s Letters
F. THOMAS LUONGO 135
‘Pro solatio illicteratorum’: The Earliest
Italian Translations of the Legenda maior
SILVIA NOCENTINI 169
Translating St Catherine of Siena in Fifteenth-Century England
DIRK SCHULTZE 185
Catherine in Words and Pictures
‘Uff daz man daz unsicher von dem sichren bekenen mug’
The Evidence of Visions in the Illustrated Vitae of Catherine of Siena
KRISTIN BöSE 215
The Dilemma of a Saint’s Portrait: Catherine’s Stigmata
between Invisible Body Trace and Visible Pictorial Sign
DAVID GANZ 239
Wondrous Words: Catherine of Siena’s Miraculous
Reading and Writing According to the Early Sources
CATHERINE M. MOONEy 263
Writing versus Voice: Tommaso Caffarini
and the Production of a Literate Catherine
JANE TyLUS 291
Perspectives
Italian Holy Women against Bohemian Heretics: Catherine of Siena
and the ‘Second Catherines’ in the Kingdom of Bohemia
TAMAR HERZIG 315
Illustrations
Figures
Figure 1, p. 9. ‘The Death of Saint Catherine’, Paris, BnF, MS franç. 9761, fol.
97r (1470–80?): ‘Cy commence la tierce partie de la legende sainte Katherine
de Senne en laquelle est contenu le trespas dicelle’.
Figure 2, p. 39. Original letter of canonization of St  Catherine issued by
Pius II., written by John de Tartarinis, papal scribe and Roman cleric (Siena,
Archivio di Stato, diplomatico).
Figure 3, p. 123. The title-page design of the first printed edition of Niccolò
Borghesi’s Vita divae Catherinae Senensis (Venice: Giovanni Tacuino, dated
26 April 1501) closely resembles that in the two known manuscript editions,
Stanford University M0381 and BAV Urb. Lat. 1510.
Figure 4, p. 136. Epistole devotissime de sancta Catharina da Siena, Venice,
Aldus Manutius, 1500.
Figure 5, p. 147. Andrea di Bartolo, St Catherine of Siena and Four Dominican
Beate, Murano, Museo Vetrario.
Figure 6, p. 149. Siena, Biblioteca comunale, T. II. 4, 5v. Libro della divina
dottrina or Dialogo, in Latin. Produced in Venice at Caffarini’s scriptorium.
Figure 7, p. 151. Siena, Biblioteca comunale, MS T. II. 4, 6v.
Figure 8, p. 152. Siena, Biblioteca comunale, MS T. II. 3, 19r. Epistole, produced
in Venice at Caffarini’s scriptorium. Opening of the section of letters to
Italian civic signori.
viii ILLUSTRATIONS
Figure 9, p. 155. Siena, Biblioteca comunale, MS B. VII. 5, 3r. Copia privilegii
ordinis fratrum et sororum de penitentia beati Dominici.
Figure 10, p. 158. London, British Library, MS Harley 3480, 54v.
Figure 11, p. 161. Florence, Biblioteca nazionale, Palatino MS 58, 1r.
Figure 12, p. 191. The Orchard of Syon. London: Wynkyn de Worde, 1519, title
page.
Figures 13–14, p. 193. Sts Bridget and Catherine of Siena; St Andrew and
St Margaret’s Church, Horsham St Faith (Norfolk).
Figure 15, p. 194. St Catherine of Siena, St Winwaloe’s Church, East Portle-
mouth (Devon).
Figure 16, p. 195. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 48, fol. 85v.
Figure 17, p. 201. Modified UV-scan of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce
114, fol. 150v (lower half).
Figure 18, p. 222. Vision of Catherine drinking from Christ’s side wound, the
Geistliche Rosengarten, 1466; Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupfer stich-
kabinett, MS 78 A 14, fol. 28r.
Figure 19, p. 223. Catherine drinks from Christ’s side wound, the Geistliche
Roseng arten, not later than 1430; Paris, BnF, MS allemand 34, fol. 43v.
Figure 20, p. 228. Hans Schäufelein, Catherine and two demons appearing
as dragons, from Hystori und wunderbarlich legend Katharine von Senis
(Augspurg: Rynman, 1515), fol. 11v.
Figure 21, p. 228. Hans Schäufelein, Christus instructs Caterina, from Hystori
und wunderbarlich legend Katharine von Senis (Augspurg: Rynman, 1515),
fol. 13r.
Figure 22, p. 231. Christ shows his side wound to Catherine, the Geistliche
Rosengarten, not later than 1430; Paris, BnF, MS allemand 34, fol. 43r.
Figure 23, p. 232. Flagellation, the Geistliche Rosengarten, not later than 1430;
Paris, BnF, MS allemand 34, fol. 4v.
Figure 24, p. 240. St Catherine of Siena with mantellata, shortly after 1380.
Siena, San Domenico, Cappella delle Volte.
ILLUSTRATIONS ix
Figure 25, p. 241. Tobias Stimmer (attr.), St Francis ‘anatomized/ dissected/
cut up [...] by his own fellow-criminals’, woodcut from: Johann Fischart, Der
Barfuesser Secten und Kuttenstreit, 1570/71.
Figure 26, p. 244. Bardi panel, 1250/60. Florence, Santa Croce, Cappella Bardi.
Figure 27, pp. 248–49. Cristoforo Cortese, Marginal drawings with stigmatized
saints, Libellus de supplemento, Siena, Biblioteca comunale degli Intronati,
MS T. I. 2, pp. 56–57.
Figure 28, p. 252. Cristoforo Cortese, Four stigmatizations: St Francis, Helena of
Hungary, Walter of Strasbourg, Catherine of Siena. Libellus de supplemento,
Siena, Biblioteca comunale degli Intronati, MS T. I. 2, p. 81.
Figure 29, p. 257. Cristoforo Cortese, Four stigmatizations: St Francis, Helena of
Hungary, Walter of Strasbourg, Catherine of Siena. Libellus de supplemento,
Bologna, Biblioteca universitaria, MS 1574, fol. 29r.
Figure 30, p. 296. Circle of Cristoforo Cortese, from Tommaso Caffarini,
Libel lus de Supplemento, Bologna, Biblioteca universitaria, MS 1574 , c. 29
(Catherine receiving the stigmata).
Figure 31, p. 297. Circle of Cristoforo Cortese, from Tommaso Caffarini,
Libel lus de Supplemento, Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria, MS 1574, c. 19v
(Catherine pierced by a nail).
Tables
Table 1, pp. 101–02. Overview of the manuscript transmission of the Geistliche
Roseng arten
Table 2, p. 187. Middle English texts relating to St Catherine of Siena