Breaking the Silence
The Poor Clares and the Visual Arts in Fifteenth-Century Italy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10415919 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeryldene M Wood (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 262-286 |
| Publication date | 1995-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Renaissance Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-4338 • E-ISSN: 1935-0236 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2863066 |
| OpenAlex | W2314445869 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 9 |
As Dante and Beatrice begin their ascent to the Empyrean in canto 3 of the Paradiso, they alight on the moon where they encounter pale spirits, not mere reflections but “true substances ... assigned [there] for inconstancy to holy vows” (Dante, 29-31).1 Encouraged by Beatrice, Dante asks an eager soul identified as Piccarda Donati, a Poor Clare abducted from a Florentine convent by her brother and coerced into a politically expedient marriage, “through what warp she had not entirely passed the shuttle of her vow” (Dante, 95-96). Like the followers of Saint Clare who “go cloaked and veiled on earth,” she replies, “as a girl, I fled the world to walk the way she walked and closed myself into her habit, pledged to her sisterhood till my last day” (Dante, 98-99, 103-05)
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Brother · Fifteenth · Girl · Humanities · SAINT · Silence · Sociology · Soul · The arts · Theology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Classics · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome · Philosophy · Psychology · Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,12 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2020 (21) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |