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Geronda Cerini was an Italian nun and poet from Perugia. The daughter of Paolo Cerini, she entered the Monastery of Santa Caterina in Calderola in 1651 and took the religious name Anna Maria Cristina di Gesù. Contemporary and later sources praised her poetic ability, although very little of her work is known to survive. She died in 1703. Available biographical information about her is extremely limited.
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