CHAPTER VIII.--BATTISTA VERNAZZA’S LIFE 336-367
Introductory 336, 337
I. Battista’s Life, from April 1497 to June 1510 337-339
II. Battista and her God-father, Tommaso Moro 339-344
III. Battista’s _Colloquies_, November 1554 to Ascension Day 1555 344-358
IV. Some further Letters of Battista, 1575-1581 358-366
V. Battista’s Death, May 1587 366, 367
CONCLUSION TO VOLUME I
WHEREIN LIES THE SECRET OF SPIRITUAL PERSUASIVENESS 367-370
APPENDIX TO PART II
CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT AND CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE MATERIALS FOR THE RE-CONSTITUTION OF SAINT CATHERINE’S LIFE AND TEACHING 371-466
Introduction: The Three Laws that govern the Growth of Religious Biography; Complexity of the Materials for Catherine’s Life 371-376
FIRST DIVISION: ACCOUNT AND ANALYSIS OF THE DOCUMENTS PREVIOUS, AND IMMEDIATELY SUBSEQUENT TO, THE “VITA E DOTTRINA” WITH THE “DICCHIARAZIONE,” IN SEVEN STAGES 376-433
I. First Stage: August 1456 to September 12, 1510, all Legal 376-380
II. Second Stage: Five further Official and Legal Documents, 1511-1526; and Four Mortuary Dates, 1524-1587 380, 381
III. Third Stage: Bishop Giustiniano’s Account of Catherine’s Life, Remains, and Biography, 1537 382-384
IV. Fourth Stage: The Two Oldest Extant Manuscripts of the “Vita e Dottrina” with the “Dicchiarazione.” Manuscript A (October 1547 to February 1548), and Manuscript B 384-395
V. Fifth Stage: Manuscript C (copy of a MSS. of 1550?), first appearance of the “Dialogo,” “Chapter” First 395-410
VI. Sixth Stage: First Printed Edition of the “Vita-Dottrina-Dicchiarazione,” 1551; Examination of all it possesses in addition to Manuscripts A, B, and C, apart from the “Dialogo” 411-417
VII. Seventh Stage: The Second “Chapter” of the “Dialogo,” which appears for the first time in the Printed “Vita,” 1551 417-424
VIII. Seventh Stage continued: Minute Analysis of one Passage from the Second “Chapter” 424-427
IX. Seventh Stage concluded: Character and Authorship of this Second “Chapter” 427-433
SECOND DIVISION: ANALYSIS, ASSIGNATION, AND APPRAISEMENT OF THE “VITA-DOTTRINA-DICCHIARAZIONE” CORPUS, IN EIGHT SECTIONS 433-466
I. The “Dicchiarazione”: the Two Stages of its Existence 434-440
II. The Earlier “Dicchiarazione,” and its Theological Glosses 440-447
III. Five Conclusions concerning the History of the “Dicchiarazione” 447-449
IV. The “Vita”-Proper, its Divisions and Parts, and its Chief Secondary and Authentic Constituents 449-453
V. Age and Authorship of the Literature retained 453-457
VI. Analysis of the Conversion-Narratives 458-462
VII. The Sayings-Passages: Three Tests for discriminating Authentic from Secondary Sayings 462, 463
VIII. Conclusion: At least Six Stages in the Upbuilding of the Complete Book of 1551. The Slight Changes introduced since then. First Claims to Authorship for Catherine 463-466
“He is not far from every one of us; for in Him we live, and move, and have our being.”--Acts xvii, 27, 28.
“Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.”--2 Corinthians iii, 17.
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