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The chapel of the courtesan and the quarrel of the Magdalens
Art Bulletin, The, June, 2002 by Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe
(59.) See Jansen, 4, 5 n. 12, for literature on penitents and disciplinati. For penitents in connection with Mary Magdalen, see Simon (as in n. 45); and Fernand Discry, "La regle des Penitents do Sainte Marie-Madeleine, d'apres le manuscrit do Saint-Quirin do Huy," Bulletin de la Commission Royale d'Historie 121 (1956): 83-145. For the disciplinati, see Haskins, 145.
(60.) Pastor, vol. 5, 131. Egidio (or Giles) Canisio da Viterbo became vicar-general of the Augustinians and was made a cardinal by Leo X. For Egidio da Viterbo, see John O'Malley, Giles of Viterbo on Church and Reform (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1968); and idem, Praise and Blame in Renaissance Rome: Rhetoric, Doctrine, and Reform in the Sacred Orators of the Papal Court, c. 1450-1521 (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1979).
(61.) For examples of Quem queritis plays, see Joseph Q. Adams, Chief Pre-Shakespearean Dramas (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1924), 9-20. See also Gustave Cohen, "Le personnage do Marie-Madeleine dans le drame religieux francais du Moyen-Age," Convivium 24 (1956): 141-63.
(62.) The scene of Christ's appearance to Mary Magdalen is in John 20:14-18. See below for the biblical sources for the scene Mary Magdalen Anointing Christ's Feet in the House of Simon.
(63.) For du Moulin, see Marie Holban, "Francois do Moulin do Rochefort et la Querelle do la Madeleine," Humanisme et Renaissance 11 (1935): 26-43, 147-71.
(64.) The manuscript (Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale do France fr. 24.955) and its illustrations are discussed in Holban (as in n. 63); and Myra Dickman Orth, "The Magdalen Shrine of La Sainte-Baume in 1516: A Series of Miniatures by Godefroy le Batave," Gazette des Beaux-Arts 98 (1981): 201-14.
(65.) The most accessible summary of the "quarrel" is Hufstader. See also Holban (as in n. 63); and Richard Cameron, "The Attack an the Biblical Work of Lefevre d'Etaples 1514-1521," Church History 38 (1969): 13-24.
(66.) Marci de Grandval theologi, ecclesiae catholicae non tres Magdalenas sed unicam colentis: Apologia seu defensorum (Paris: Josse Bade, 1518).
(67.) Reverendi Patris Joannis Fisscher [sic] Reffensis in Anglia Episcopi, necnon Cantabrigien, academiae Cancellarii dignissimi, de unica Magdalene, Libri tres (Paris: Josse Bade, 1519).
(68.) Hufstader, 40 n. 38, records that Tholosani's manuscripts, De Maria Magdalene (1522), and Disceptatio in Jodoc. Clicht. Jacobi Fabri defensorum (1522), are in the Biblioteca Nazionale, Florence.
(69.) Florence, Bibl. Naz. ms Leggendario dei Santi, Codice Palatino, N. 131, fols. 70-72. The text is cited at length in Herbert P. Horne, "La tavola d'altare delle Convertite dipinta da Sandra Botticelli," Rassegna d'Arte 13 (1913): 149-50. Her conversion was also the subject of printed books, such as the popular La miracolosa conversione de Santa Maria Maddalena, which was published in numerous editions throughout this period. For copies illustrated with woodcuts, see Max Sander, Le livre a figures italien depuis 1467 jusqu a 1530 (New York: G. E. Stechert, 1941), nos. 4097-99.