‘Life’ of Maria Maddalena de’ Pazzi in Dutch. No U.S. copies.
Vincenzo Puccini / [Maria Maddalena de’ Pazzi]. Het wonderbaer leven van de salighe maghet Maria Magdalena de’ Pazzi, Religieuse van de Carmeliten Orden. Antwerp: By de Weduwe ende erfghenamen van Jan Cnobbaert, 1643. 8vo [17.2 x 10.9 cm], [1] f. full-page engraved title, [9] ff., 652 pp, [28] ff., with [2] full-page engravings in the collation at pp. 280 & 520. Bound in contemporary vellum, overlapping edges, title in manuscript on spine, formerly with ties, blue edges. Minor rubbing and edge wear bookplates of Bibliotheca Seminarii Warmondani and the Dr. R. Cordes inside upper cover. Engraved title loosening and with marginal edge wear to its top and fore-edges, engraving at p. 520 trimmed inside platemark at top edge, generally quite clean.
Rare (no U.S. copies) 1643 first edition of this Dutch translation of the official ‘Life’ of the Carmelite Maria Maddalena de’ Pazzi, which was first published in 1608 in Italian (Vita della madre suor Maria Maddalena de’ Pazzi Fiorentina) by her confessor, Vincenzo Puccini (1611-88). The translation here is by the Carmelite Pierre Wemmers (c. 1600-1678).
This edition is notable for its full-page engraved title and two further full-page engravings by Cornelis Galle the Younger (1615-78) after designs by Abraham van Diepenbeeck (1596-1675).
Maria Maddalena de’ Pazzi (1566-1607) was a Florentine noblewoman, Carmelite nun, and mystic, who was celebrated for her extreme mortification of the flesh. She wore a crown of thorns and a corset of nails, read the thoughts of others, predicted future, walked barefoot through the snow, dripped hot wax onto her body, licked the wounds of the diseased, etc. She was beatified in 1626 and canonized in 1669.
OCLC and KVK locate no U.S. copies of this work.
*Collated with the Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience copy; Clare Copeland, Maria Maddalena de’ Pazzi; Maria Maddalena de’ Pazzi tra Sei e Settecento; Chiara Vasciaveo, ed., Santa Maria Maddalena de’ Pazzi: Detti e preghiere nella testimonianza delle prime Sorelle.