by Sigrid Undset · Ignatius Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781586174088
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«Catherine of Siena» is the biography of Catherine of Siena written by Sigrid Undset, published by Ignatius Press in paperback (335 pages, in English).
Sigrid Undset, Nobel laureate, reconstructs the life of Catherine of Siena, medieval mystic and saint: her childhood in Siena, the awakening of her religious vocation, her devotion to the poor and sick, and her influence on the Church of her time, within fourteenth-century Italy.
Translated from Norwegian into English by Kate Austin-Lund; the first English edition appeared in 1954 at Sheed and Ward (New York). Ignatius Press published this edition in 2009.
A work suitable for readers interested in Christian spirituality, hagiography, and medieval Italian history.
Sigrid Undset was a Danish-born Norwegian novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928.
