Quotes from Battista Varani's books, and about them
The Valley of Decision on The Mental Sorrows of Christ: “…a world where art was represented by the latest pastel-portrait of a court beauty, literature by Liguori's Glories of Mary or the blessed Battista's Mental Sorrows of Christ, and history by the conviction that Piedmont's efforts to stamp out the enemies of the Church had distinguished her above…”