Excerpt from St. Catherine of Siena IT is hoped that this sketch of St Catherine of Siena may persuade any readers it may obtain to turn for fuller knowledge of her to Professor Edmund Gardner's Saint Catherine of Sz'ena a Study in the Religion, Literature ana' History of the Fourteenth Century in Italy (j. M. Dent Co., to which it is deeply indebted; to Matilde Fiorilli's edition of the Lihro a'elt'a Divina Dottrina (bari, Gius. Laterza Figli, or, failing that, to the English translation of it by Algar Thorold (kegan Paul Co., 1896; second edition, abridged, and to her letters, either in the originals or in Miss Vida D. Scudder's English selection from them (st Catherine Of Siena as seen in her Letters. J. M. Dent Co., In the present sketch there is nothing original, save possibly its point of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.