Chapter VI: Appendix: To Part II

CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT AND CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF
THE MATERIALS FOR THE RE-CONSTITUTION OF
SAINT CATHERINE’S LIFE AND TEACHING 371-466

Introduction: The Three Laws that govern the Growth of
Religious Biography; Complexity of the Materials for
Catherine’s Life 371-376

FIRST DIVISION: ACCOUNT AND ANALYSIS OF THE DOCUMENTS
PREVIOUS, AND IMMEDIATELY SUBSEQUENT
TO, THE “VITA E DOTTRINA” WITH THE “DICCHIARAZIONE,”
IN SEVEN STAGES 376-433

I. First Stage: August 1456 to September 12, 1510, all
Legal 376-380

II. Second Stage: Five further Official and Legal Documents,
1511-1526; and Four Mortuary Dates, 1524-1587 380, 381

III. Third Stage: Bishop Giustiniano’s Account of Catherine’s
Life, Remains, and Biography, 1537 382-384

IV. Fourth Stage: The Two Oldest Extant Manuscripts of
the “Vita e Dottrina” with the “Dicchiarazione.”
Manuscript A (October 1547 to February 1548), and
Manuscript B 384-395

V. Fifth Stage: Manuscript C (copy of a MSS. of 1550?),
first appearance of the “Dialogo,” “Chapter” First 395-410

VI. Sixth Stage: First Printed Edition of the
“Vita-Dottrina-Dicchiarazione,” 1551; Examination of all it
possesses in addition to Manuscripts A, B, and C, apart
from the “Dialogo” 411-417

VII. Seventh Stage: The Second “Chapter” of the “Dialogo,”
which appears for the first time in the Printed “Vita,”
1551 417-424

VIII. Seventh Stage continued: Minute Analysis of one Passage
from the Second “Chapter” 424-427

IX. Seventh Stage concluded: Character and Authorship of
this Second “Chapter” 427-433

SECOND DIVISION: ANALYSIS, ASSIGNATION, AND APPRAISEMENT
OF THE “VITA-DOTTRINA-DICCHIARAZIONE”
CORPUS, IN EIGHT SECTIONS 433-466

I. The “Dicchiarazione”: the Two Stages of its Existence 434-440

II. The Earlier “Dicchiarazione,” and its Theological
Glosses 440-447

III. Five Conclusions concerning the History of the
“Dicchiarazione” 447-449

IV. The “Vita”-Proper, its Divisions and Parts, and its
Chief Secondary and Authentic Constituents 449-453

V. Age and Authorship of the Literature retained 453-457

VI. Analysis of the Conversion-Narratives 458-462

VII. The Sayings-Passages: Three Tests for discriminating
Authentic from Secondary Sayings 462, 463

VIII. Conclusion: At least Six Stages in the Upbuilding of the
Complete Book of 1551. The Slight Changes introduced
since then. First Claims to Authorship for Catherine 463-466

“He is not far from every one of us; for in Him we live, and
move, and have our being.”--Acts xvii, 27, 28.

“Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.”--2
Corinthians iii, 17.

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