{"product_id":"santini-pietr-antonio-with-marinelli-lucrezia-and-leoni-ambrogio","title":"SANTINI, Pietr Antonio. [with] MARINELLI, Lucrezia. [and] LEONI, Ambrogio.","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn interesting poetic sammelband, with uncommon works. The most interesting and scarcest  is the second   a versified life of St Francis by the Venetian Lucrezia Marinella (or Marinelli, 1571-1653) daughter of Giovanni Marinelli, a physician who wrote popular works on women s illnesses. She never married, and lived a secluded life devoted to the pursuit of knowledge and literature, whilst encouraging other talented female writers. A key theme of her works was the defence of women, although she also wrote a couple of religious poems. Her  Vita  is based on Tommaso da Celano s two biographies of St Francis. Marinelli  initially portrays St Francis  life before his conversion   his love of material things, [...] his lust for beautiful women. She then describes St Francis  conversion [...] and his travels to the mountains and to Rome, where he often pauses to meditate and ward off worldly temptations. [...] The poem replays Christ s crucifixion in a dream sequence, after which St Francis receives the stigmata, the physical proof of his perfect imitation of Christ. The poem closes with St Francis  death and his soul s ascent towards Heaven  (Price, ed., p.65).  La Taide Convertita , here in its first edition, was written by Ambrogio Leoni, member of the Crosier (or Hospitaller) order, of whom little is known. It is a religious play on the conversion of St Thais, not included in the Roman martyrology but found among the Eastern saints. Originally a prostitute, St Thais converts to Christianity, then spending three years in the mortification of her body to expiate her past. Unlike in the  Golden Legend ,  the saint is no longer the isolated protagonist of a heroic Christian story, but the center of a network of human relationships that includes several characters : the hermit monk, two servants, two suitors, personifications of virtues and vices, and even an angel, Lucifer, and demons (Leone, p.53). The first work is a poetic narration of the life of Christ. An interesting collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SANTINI, Pietr Antonio. [with] MARINELLI, Lucrezia. [and] LEONI, Ambrogio.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57868711854415,"sku":"L4715","price":1850.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/20250614_182131-copy.jpg?v=1781793398","url":"https:\/\/sokol-books-ltd.myshopify.com\/products\/santini-pietr-antonio-with-marinelli-lucrezia-and-leoni-ambrogio","provider":"Sokol Books Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}