Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Nuns, Witchcraft, and the Inquisition
- Chapter 1 Female Religious, Claustration, and Santa Chiara of Carpi
- Chapter 2 The Outbreak and Maleficia
- Chapter 3 The Confessor and Love Magic
- Chapter 4 The Exorcists and the Demons
- Chapter 5 Sisters Dealta and Ippolita under Attack
- Chapter 6 Bellacappa's Defense
- Chapter 7 The Waning of the Possessions
- Conclusion
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
Appendix A
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Nuns, Witchcraft, and the Inquisition
- Chapter 1 Female Religious, Claustration, and Santa Chiara of Carpi
- Chapter 2 The Outbreak and Maleficia
- Chapter 3 The Confessor and Love Magic
- Chapter 4 The Exorcists and the Demons
- Chapter 5 Sisters Dealta and Ippolita under Attack
- Chapter 6 Bellacappa's Defense
- Chapter 7 The Waning of the Possessions
- Conclusion
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chronological List of the Possessions of Santa Chiara
1) 26 January 1636: Paolina Forni, a “young” laywoman and lady-inwaiting; died from her ills on 23 May 1636.
2) February (?) 1636: Leonora Galli a “young” lay servant; died from her ills on 13 December 1636.
3) ca. 12 April 1637: Ottavia Bendidio; died from her ills on 23 January 1638 at age thirty-three.
4) 28 October 1637: Giulia Angelica Sertori, age thirty-nine.
5) 28 October 1637: Barbara Leonora Forni, age twenty.
6) 4 November 1637: Flerida (also known as Paola Francesca) Federici (also known as Cimadori), age thirty-five.
7) 4 November 1637: Degnamerita Solieri, age thirty-two.
8) 4 November 1637: Margherita Felice Castagnini, about thirty-nine, cured of her ills before the Holy Office's investigation began.
9) 8 November 1637: Clara Maria Amoldoni, age twenty-four.
10) December 1637–January 1638: Maria Maddalena Colevati, age fifty.
11) December 1637–January 1638: Cinzia Ciarlatina, age twenty-nine.
12) December 1637–January 1638: Veronica Maria Coccapani, age twenty-four.
13) 24 February 1638: Caterina Margherita Ronchi, age twenty-one.
14) 24 February 1638: Anna Maria Martinelli, age seventeen.
NB: The above ages of the Clarisses, other than that of Ottavia Bendidio, refer to the time at which the Holy Office's investigation began (19 April 1638).
Sources: ASM, Inq., b. 108; AMSCC, Memoriale secondo.
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- The Scourge of DemonsPossession, Lust, and Witchcraft in a Seventeenth-Century Italian Convent, pp. 215Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2009