Enciclopedia Cattolica

CORELLI, MARIA

Volume IV · p. 318 · 1950

English translation · Testo originale italiano

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

CORELLI, MARIA. - English writer, adopted daughter of Ch. Mackay, b. at Bayswater in 1864, d. at Stratford-on-Avon in 1924.

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She wrote many works, including: A Romance of Two Worlds (1886); Barabbas (1893), a melodrama on the Passion of
CORELLI, ARCANGELO — Portrait. Engraving by John Smith after H. Howard.

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(from R. Hans, Musik des Barocks, in H. Doerke, Handbuch der Musikwissenschaft, Potsdam BBl, p. 218) CORELLI, ARCANGELO - Frontispiece of op. 3, Rome 1689, engraving by N. Dovigny.
Cristo; The Mighty Atom (1896), in which she protests against the irreligious education of childhood; The Master Christian (1900), an invective against the clergy and Churches, especially the Roman and Anglican: the Church should reform its creed on scientific bases and its ethics on social ones.

BIBL.: B. Vyer, Memoirs of M. C., London 1930; The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, ed. F. W. Batson, III, New York 1941, p. 541. Franco Costabile
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