Bartolomea Riccoboni (ca 1369–1440) was a Dominican
nun in the convent of
Corpus Domini
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in
Venice
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. She wrote a chronicle of the convent, and a necrology. She has been studied as a good example of the beginnings of women's writings in the late medieval mendicant orders.
[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
. 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.
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1440 deaths
Dominican nuns
15th-century Venetian writers
Year of birth uncertain
15th-century Venetian women
14th-century Italian women writers
15th-century Italian women writers
15th-century Italian nuns
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