Romana Guarnieri was born in
The Hague in 1913,[2] the daughter of an Italian father and a Dutch mother. Her parents separated when she was young, and she was for a while brought up by atheist and theosophist grandparents. After her mother's second marriage, to an Italian architect, she came to Italy,[3] living in
Rome. In 1939 she gained her PhD in German language and literature. In 1938 she met the Catholic priest Giuseppe De Luca, with whom she collaborated in founding the Edizione di Storia e Letteratura.[2] She also converted to
Roman Catholicism.[3]
Una singolare amicizia: ricordando don Giuseppe De Luca. Genoa: Marietti, 1998
Donne e chiesa tra mistica e istituzioni, secoli XIII-XV. Rome: Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2004.
(with Giuseppe De Luca, ed. by Vanessa Roghi) Tra le stelle e il profondo : carteggio 1938-1945. Brescia: Morcelliana, 2010.
References
^Sean L. Field, Robert E. Lerner & Sylvain Piron, 'Return to the evidence for Marguerite Porete's authorship of the Mirror of Simple Souls', Journal of Medieval History, Vol. 43, Issue 2 (2017). pp. 153-73.
^Guarnieri, Romana. 'Lo Specchio delle anime semplici Margherita Poirette'. L'Osservatore Romano. 16 June 1946. Reprinted in Guarnieri, 'Il movimento del Libero Spirito', Archivio Italiano per la storia della pietà, Vol. 4 (1965), pp. 661-63.