Corpus Domini, Ferrara
The Corpus Domini Monastery is a monastery at 4 via Pergolato in Ferrara. Its public church was decorated in the late-Baroque period. On its high altar is Communion of the Apostles by Giambettino Cignaroli (1768), whilst the church's ceiling fresco Glory of Saint Catherina Vegri is by Giuseppe Ghedini (1770–1773). The house is sthill a monastery; a community of Franciscan nuns, popularly called Poor Clares after their founder and companion to S. Francis, S. Clare lives here. One of their abbesses was the daughter of Lucrezia Borgia, Leonara d'Este. She is now recognised as one of the earliest writers of polyphonic choral music for women.
Notable burials
The church is the burial-place for several members of the House of Este:
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