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As a marketing writer, I miss out on long sentences that keep my brain activity running. So, it was with a breath of relief that I read Suor Maria Celeste's first translated letter of this collection. The rest of the chapter is Sobel providing historical context in a voice worthy of the letter. It did get me thinking about the 1600s' emphasis on worldview. And how the historical record favoured womanhood in this case