Caecilia Coppoli (Cecilia Coppoli da Perugia, 1426-1500)
Caecilia Coppoli (Cecilia Coppoli da Perugia, 1426-1500) OSC. Italian Poor Clare from Perugia. Born in the noble Coppoli family, and the recipient of a good humanist upbringing. Her family betrothed her to the noble Roberto da Signorelli, yet she did not acquiesce and fled from her parents’ home to become a Poor Clares at Foligno (1444/1445). Four years later, in 1448, she already was the vicar (second in command) of her convent, and as such was sent to Perugia, to inplement Observant reforms in the Poor Clare community of her home town. In 1449, after her return to Foligno, she was elected abbess. She also fulfilled a stint as abbess at the Clarissan house in Perugia between 1455 and 1460, and following this, she again became abbess at Foligno. She retained this position until 1475. Under her leadership, the Foligno Poor Clares adopted Clare of Assisi's Regula Prima from 1253. In 1475, Cecilia was elected abbess at the Observant Poor Clares monastery of Urbino, and she was finally once again abbess at Foligno after 1485/89. She died there on 2 January 1500.
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Testamentum . See: Cesare Cenci, ‘Il testamento della b. Cecilia Coppoli da Perugia e di Battista (Girolama) di Montefeltro’, Archivum Franciscum Historicum 69 (1976), 219-231.
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Correspondence (with Iacopa Pollicino and other Clarissan nuns etc.). See literature below.
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Historia Monialium Clarissarum Fulignatis (...) . Check!
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