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Ordine della Santissima Annunziata

An early modern religious community rather than a single individual, this name is attached to devotional and instructional works created for the nuns of the Order of the Most Holy Annunciation. The order began in Genoa in 1604 and is closely linked with the spirituality of Blessed Maria Vittoria de Fornari Strata.

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Ordine della Santissima Annunziata is not a personal author name in the usual sense. It refers to the Order of the Most Holy Annunciation, a Roman Catholic monastic order of contemplative nuns, often known as the Blue Nuns or Turchine. Sources about the order describe it as having been founded in Genoa in 1604 and formed around devotion to the mystery of the Incarnation.

The order is closely associated with Blessed Maria Vittoria de Fornari Strata, identified by the community itself as its founder. Older religious books and rule books are sometimes credited simply to the order, because they were written for the life, prayer, and governance of the community rather than by a single named writer.

Because this is an institutional author, biographical details are necessarily limited. What can be said with confidence is that works under this name belong to a long contemplative tradition centered on prayer, communal religious life, and the spiritual formation of the Annunziata sisters.