A Mathematical Analysis of Maria Valtorta's Mystical Writings

We have studied the very large amount of literary works written by the Italian mystic Maria Valtorta to assess similarities and differences in her writings, because she claims that most of them are due to mystical visions. We have used mathematical and statistical tools developed for specifically st...

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Auteurs: Matricciani, Emilio (Auteur) ; De Caro, Liberato 1964- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: MDPI [2018]
Dans: Religions
Année: 2018, Volume: 9, Numéro: 11, Pages: 1-23
Sujets non-standardisés:B Visions
B Maria Valtorta
B Mystics
B Jesus Christ
B syntactic index
B readability index
B punctuation marks
B semantic index
B confidence tests
B text characters
B dictations
B Words
B Sentences
B Virgin Mary
B word interval
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Résumé:We have studied the very large amount of literary works written by the Italian mystic Maria Valtorta to assess similarities and differences in her writings, because she claims that most of them are due to mystical visions. We have used mathematical and statistical tools developed for specifically studying deep linguistic aspects of texts. The general trend indicates that the literary works explicitly attributable to Maria Valtorta differ significantly from her other literary works, which she claims are attributable to the alleged characters Jesus and Mary. Mathematically, they seem to have been written by different authors. The comparison with the Italian literature is very striking. A single author, namely Maria Valtorta, seems to be able to write texts so diverse as to cover the entire mathematical range (suitably defined) of the Italian literature spanning seven centuries.
ISSN:2077-1444
Contient:Enthalten in: Religions
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.3390/rel9110373