Romana Guarnieri

Romana Guarnieri (1913-2003) was an Italian medievalist, responsible in 1946 for identifying Marguerite Porete as the author of The Mirror of Simple Souls.

[1] Romana Guarnieri was born in The Hague in 1913,[2] the daughter of an Italian father and a Dutch mother.

In 1938 she met the Catholic priest Giuseppe De Luca, with whom she collaborated in founding the Edizione di Storia e Letteratura.

[3] Guarnieri established Marguerite's authorship as the author of The Mirror of Simple Souls in an article published in L'Osservatore Romano.

[4] After De Luca's death in 1962, Guarnieri directed the Archive Italiano per la Storia della Pietà, which he had created.