The life of St. Mary Magdalene of Pazzi, a Carmelite nunn
By: Newly translated out of Italian by the reverend father Lezin de Sainte Scholastique, provincial of the Reformed Carmelites of Touraine. At Paris, for Sebast. Cramoisy in St. James's Street, at the sign of Fame. 1670. And now done out of the French: with a preface concerning the nature, causes, concomitants and consequences of ecstasy and rapture, and a brief discourse added about discerning and trying the spirits, whether they be of God..
Publisher: Printed; and are to be sold by Randall Taylor near Stationers Hall.
Published: 1687
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Translated from: fre; ita
Number of pages: 134
Subjects: Biography; Doctrines; Controversial literature; Nuns; Christian women saints; Catholic Church
Other titles: Life of St. Mary Magdalene of Pazzi, a Carmelite nun; Life of Saint Mary Magdalene of Pazzi, a Carmelite nun; Tracts 1681-1701
Work titles: Vita della veneranda Madre suor Maria Maddalena de Pazzi
Notes: Attributed to Vincenzio Puccini by Wing.

Translation of: Vita della veneranda Madre suor Maria Maddalena de Pazzi, first printed in Florence, 1611.

The french translation, by Louis Brochand, was printed under tilte: La vie de Sainte Marie Magdelene de Pazzi religieuse Carmelite de l'ancienne observance du monastere de Sainte Marie des Anges à Florence, printed in Paris by Sebastian Cramoisy in 1670.

English translation attributed to Thomas Smith by NUC pre-1956 imprints; the preface (presumably also by Smith) is a controversialist text that argues against the Catholic doctrines purportedly demonstrated by the main text.

"The life of St. Mary Magdalene of Pazzi, a Carmelite nunn. Newly translated out of Italian by the reverend father Lezin de Sainte Scholastique, provincial of the Reformed Carmelites of Touraine", pages [35]-79, bears the imprint: At Paris, for Sebastian Cramoisy in St. James's Street, at the sign of Fame, 1670.

Maria Maddalena de Pazzi, a Florentine noblewoman born with the name Caterina Lucrezia de' Pazzi, became a Carmelite in 1583. She died in 1607 and her incorrupted body was laid in the monastery of of Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi in Careggi. The beatification process began in 1610 under the reign of Pope Paul V and was completed in 1626 under the reign of Pope Urban VIII. She was finally canonized by Clement IX in 1669.

Signatures: [A]² ([A]1 verso, [A]2 recto blank) B-R⁴ (F1, F2 versos blank) S⁴ (-S4) (S3 verso blank).

Errata: page [1], 3rd count.

Title pages printed within double rule borders.

Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700, P4158

English short title catalogue, R31939

Purchase; 1918; 11352-13.