Istoria delle Monache di S. Silvestro di Verona. Con altre notizie toccanti alcune memorie Ecclesiastiche, e Civili della Città medesima. Dedicata alla Molto Rev. M. D. Angela Regina Montessi. Scrittora attentissima del Monastero da Lodovico Perini Veronese

by: Perini, Lodovico

Publication date: 1720

Topics: Nuns -- Italy -- Verona -- Early works to 1800, Convents -- Italy -- Verona -- Early works to 1800, Monasticism and religious orders for women -- Italy, Convents, Monasticism and religious orders for women, Nuns, Verona (Italy) -- Church history -- Sources, Italy, Italy -- Verona

Publisher: In Padova : Nella stamp. del Seminario, appresso Gio. Manfrè

Collection: womenofthebook; Johns_Hopkins_University; americana

Digitizing sponsor: The Arcadia Fund

Contributor: The Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries

Language: Italian

4to. pp. (12), 120; pp. 198, (12), (1 integral blank). Slightly later cartonnato. “Alla Rev.... Abadessa, e Rde. Monache del Redentor di Verona”. Sole edition. With a contemporary presentation inscription, “Alla Rev[erendissime] Abadessa, e R[everen]de. Monache del Redentor di Verona” on title page, perhaps in the author’s own hand. From 1718-1722 the architect Lodovico Perini executed renovations on the ancient Convent of S. Silvestro. The present work is a remarkably thorough antiquarian study, replete with appendices of supporting documents, chronicling the history of the convent and its nuns. The original structures dates from the mid-12th century; Perini was responsible for the iconic building still visible today, though the convent was suppressed and the nuns dispersed during the Napoleonic invasion in 1806

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