Book: Catherine of Siena: Selected Letters, ed. by Diana L. Villegas
This latest volume in the Classics of Western Spirituality series from Paulist Press was edited by Diana L. Villegas. It includes a 37 page introduction and a selection of Catherine's letters organized by categories of recipients, e.g., nuns, Mantellate and close lay male disciples, friars and monks, and so forth. Here is an excerpt from Villegas's Preface:
In doing a new translation, I benefit from the completion of the critical edition of The Letters by Antonio Volpato as well as from many more years of available Catherine scholarship. While (Suzanne) Noffke, a fine writer, gave...