The Road To Siena, The by Edmund Gardner

The Road To Siena, The by Edmund Gardner

Catherine of Siena's influence was felt throughout the kingdoms of Europe. She enjoyed the confidence of popes, royalty, and most of all, the common people of Italy. A complicated woman, she was able to speak bluntly to a queen: Instead of a woman, you have become the servant and slave of nothingness, making yourself the subject of lies and of the demon who is their father; and also encourage the wife of a simple tailor: Clothe yourself in the royal virtues.

Her story is told in this landmark biography, first published a century ago and praised by Evelyn Underhill as the best modern biography of a saint ever written. Long out of print, this new edition has been slightly abridged and generously supplemented with the reflections of other biographers, historians, and artists--who shed fresh light on what we know about an amazing woman.

The Road to Siena is a fairly brief-but-concentrated book illustrating a rather brief-but-concentrated life. Our instincts to distrust Catherine's visions as delusions and her hearty exhortations as mania are natural, but repeatedly Gardner manages to put them down in turn, and all of our modern understanding must be humbled a bit when we read that the invisible stigmata Catherine claimed in her life became manifest and quite visible upon her death, even if her mystical wedding ring did not. Taken together, the book brings the reader into close contact with Catherine's flame; one feels the heat that singed the consciences of popes and monarchs alike.
--Elizabeth Scalia, Benedictine Oblate, author of the award-winning Strange Gods: Unmasking the Idols in Everyday Life, and Word on Fire Editor-at-Large

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Edmund Garret Gardner was seen as one of England's greatest Dante scholars. Aside from publishing voluminously on Dante, he also penned a series of travel guides to Italian cities published by J. M. Dent. The British Academy awards the Edmund G. Gardner Memorial Prize in Italian Studies every five years, in honor of his accomplishments. Professor Paul Rich is a life member of the Mythopoetic Society and Modern Language Association, and although having met Dan Brown and being a Harvard alumnus and Freemason, has always denied any closer similarity to Professor Langdon.

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ISBN 13	9781640602243
ISBN 10	1640602240
Title	The Road To Siena, The
Author	Edmund Gardner
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Paraclete Press
Year published	2019-02-05
Number of pages	224
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