Paola Antonia Negri
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Paola Antonia Negri, later known as Virginia Negri (1508, Castellanza - 4 April 1555, Milan) was an Italian nun of the Angelic Sisters of St. Paul, of which she was co-founder. She played a dominant role in her community until she was ousted from it by the Roman Inquisition and condemned to imprisonment.
Bibliography (in Italian)[]
- Giovanni Battista Fontana de' Conti, Vita della Angelica Paola Antonia de' Negri, in Lettere Spirituali della devota religiosa Angelica Paola Antonia de' Negri milanese, Romae, in aedibus Populi Romani 1576
- Rita Bacchiddu, « Hanno per capo et maestra una monaca giovane »: l'ascesa e il declino di Paola Antonia Negri, in « Religioni e Società », 51, 2005, p. 59
- AA. VV., Rinascimento al femminile, a cura di O. Niccoli, Bari-Roma, Laterza 2006 ISBN 88-420-5655-3
- Andrea Maria Erba, L'angelica Paola Antonia Negri. Le drammatiche vicende della « divina madre » (1508-1555), Segni, EDIVI 2008 ISBN 978-88-89231-41-8
- Elena Bonora, Virginia Negri, in « Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani », 78, Roma, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia italiana, 2013
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External links[]
- http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100227473
- http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100227473
Categories:
- 1508 births
- 1555 deaths
- 16th-century Italian Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns
- Victims of the Inquisition
- Roman Catholic biographical stubs