John Meador
Valperga
Mary Shelley drew on an account of Guglielma from
Muratori, Ludovico Antonio, Dissertazioni sopra le Antichità Italiane, 1751
to gain some of her information before visiting Italy. She is said to have begun the story in 1817 IIRC.
Re: Guglielmites
"Muratori gravely observes: "We may piously believe that some were distinguished by supernatural gifts and admitted to the secrets of heaven, but we may justly suspect that the source of many of their revelations was
their ardent imagination filled with ideas of religion and piety."
http://www.freeonlinebooks.org/displaybook1.php?chapter_id=9&id=5267
There is (I think) a download-able work here which requires some kind of plug-in:
Gerolamo Biscaro, Guglielma la Boema e i Guglielmiti, p. 1
Archivio Storico Lombardo
Milano, Società Storica Lombarda
Annuale
LVII, 1930, 1-2, ser. VI, fasc. XXV-XXVI
http://emeroteca.braidense.it/eva/s...lume=1199&CodFascicolo=4027&CodArticolo=93746
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmiten
-also informative
Guglielmites are apparently aka Wilhelmites, which is confusing because there is another non-heretical order so named after William of Maleval....
-John
Mary Shelley drew on an account of Guglielma from
Muratori, Ludovico Antonio, Dissertazioni sopra le Antichità Italiane, 1751
to gain some of her information before visiting Italy. She is said to have begun the story in 1817 IIRC.
Re: Guglielmites
"Muratori gravely observes: "We may piously believe that some were distinguished by supernatural gifts and admitted to the secrets of heaven, but we may justly suspect that the source of many of their revelations was
their ardent imagination filled with ideas of religion and piety."
http://www.freeonlinebooks.org/displaybook1.php?chapter_id=9&id=5267
There is (I think) a download-able work here which requires some kind of plug-in:
Gerolamo Biscaro, Guglielma la Boema e i Guglielmiti, p. 1
Archivio Storico Lombardo
Milano, Società Storica Lombarda
Annuale
LVII, 1930, 1-2, ser. VI, fasc. XXV-XXVI
http://emeroteca.braidense.it/eva/s...lume=1199&CodFascicolo=4027&CodArticolo=93746
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmiten
-also informative
Guglielmites are apparently aka Wilhelmites, which is confusing because there is another non-heretical order so named after William of Maleval....
-John