Félix Dupanloup
Félix Antoine Philibert Dupanloup (3 January 1802 - 11 October 1878) was a French Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Orléans from 1849 to 1878. He was among the leaders of Liberal Catholicism in France.
Donne dotte e donne studiose
[edit]- Félix Dupanloup, Donne dotte e donne studiose, versione di una giovinetta pratese, Tipografia di Ranieri Guasti, Prato, 1869
- (About Leoba of Tauberbischofsheim) This admirable virgin, who added to the lights of the Holy Spirit those carefully collected through study, combined purity and humility (virtues which in a heart are valid for guarding everything) with such a science in theology and canon law that he became one of the luminaries of the nascent Germanic Church. (chap. III, p. 10)
- Saint Radegund is not happy to collect in Poitiers one of the last Roman poets (Venantius Fortunatus), but the education that through him he gives to his nuns forms writers who soon surpass the master: classic purity and ancient elegance come to life in the writings of Baudonovia. Upon Radegund's death, all the enchantment of Christian inspiration is revealed in the hymn that a nun from Poitiers improvises, and one of the first flowers of the short poem opens on the tomb of the holy queen who had loved letters so much. (chap. III, pp.12-13)
- Under Dagobert, St. Geltrude knew all the Scriptures in mind and translated them from Greek. She sent all the way across the seas to seek out Irish masters to teach music, poetry, and Greek to the cloistered virgins of Nivella. Brilliant torches come out of such hearths, like Lioba founder of Bischofsheim Abbey, Roswitha, and St. Bridget. (chap. III, p. 14)
- The De Maistre claims that a girl who "wants to paint is crazy"; but how many great Saints have had this madness! S. Catherine of Bologna was a famous miniaturist; she wrote learned treatises, and painted masterpieces: she also composed sacred music and perfected the instruments: until her deathbed she played instruments she herself had conceived and performed, and it sounded good, that she painted them on the altars holding the lyre or viola she had invented. (chap. III, p. 15)
