MEDITATIONS OF A MOTHER SUPERIOR
MAURIZI, Maria Luisa.
Morali e divote riflessioni a tutti utilissime e specialmente alle persone claustrali scritte dalla serva di Dio suor Maria Luisa Maurizi Romana, Vicaria delle Monache Mantellate di Roma per comando del fu’ R. Don. Agostino Romagnoli suo direttore e zelantissimo missionario. Opera postuma.
Rome, Tipografia della Pia Unione alle Terme, 1833.
8vo, pp. viii, 64, [1 (imprimatur)], [1 (blank)]; without frontispiece portrait present in only some copies; some foxing throughout; in later drab boards, black cloth spine.
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Morali e divote riflessioni a tutti utilissime e specialmente alle persone claustrali scritte dalla serva di Dio suor Maria Luisa Maurizi Romana, Vicaria delle Monache Mantellate di Roma per comando del fu’ R. Don. Agostino Romagnoli suo direttore e zelantissimo missionario. Opera postuma.
Uncommon first edition of this collection of meditations on the religious life, by the Roman nun Maria Luisa Maurizi (born Giacinta Gertrude Maurizi, 1770–1831), and published posthumously at the behest of her spiritual director, Agostino Romagnoli.
Over the course of eighteen meditations, Maurizi reflects on the influence of the Virgin, the Passion as echoed in the Eucharist, the example of uniformity with the divine will set by Christ at Gethsemane, the lessons to be learnt from Peter’s denial of Christ, the role of Pilate, and the imitation of Christ necessary in the religious life. Each meditation is accompanied by a series of explanatory punti.
Maurizi was born into a well-known Roman family, and, after her entry into the Dominicans was thwarted by ill-health, took over an old monastery in Rome in 1797 to establish a community of Servite Sisters. Aside from a Napoleon-induced hiatus between 1799 and 1801, she remained there as superior and novice mistress until her death; she left more than 600 letters of advice to fellow nuns, priests, and others.
OCLC records only three copies outside Italy, at Fordham and in the Polish Union Catalogue.
