Italian translation of Revelationes (Scala Coeli version, 1626)
Description
This translation was made by an unknown nun of Scala Coeli monastey in Genoa. It is described by Feiss (1993, p. 318) as "an unadorned and accurate reflection of the rather straightforward Latin of the original texts."
Manuscripts
- United States of America
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New Haven, Yale University Library, Beinecke Z111 0141-2, a. 1626.
vol. I: Italian translation of Rev. I–VI.
vol. II: Italian translation of Rev. VII–VIII.
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New Haven, Yale University Library, Beinecke Z111 0141-2, a. 1626.
Literature
Feiss, Hugh. 1993. The Many Lives and Languages of St. Birgitta of Sweden and Her Order. Studia monastica: commentarium ad rem monasticam 35, pp. 318.
Pezzini, Domenico. 2000. The Italian Reception of Birgittine Writings. In: Morris, Bridget & O'Mara, Veronica (ed.), The Translation of the Works of St Birgitta of Sweden into the Medieval European Vernaculars. (The Medieval Translator 7.) Turnhout: Brepols. Pp. 189.