Bartolomea Riccoboni Explained

Bartolomea Riccoboni (ca 1369–1440) was a Dominican nun in the convent of Corpus Domini in Venice. She wrote a chronicle of the convent, and a necrology.^[1] She has been studied as a good example of the beginnings of women's writings in the late medieval mendicant orders.^[2] In addition to matters relating to her own convent, she records the events of the Papal Schism, in which she is an adherent of Gregory XII.

Notes and References

1. Daniel Bornstein, Life and Death in a Venetian convent, University of Chicago Press, 2000.
2. Graeme Dunphy, "Perspicax ingenium mihi collatum est: Strategies of authority in chronicles written by women", in Juliana Dresvina, Authority and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Chronicles, Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Cambridge, 2012 (online).