María Teresa Fernández de la Vega

far-reaching in its effects, however, was the renewed interest in brief lives and the private journal inherited from Renaissance models, the recollections of notable figures like Montluc, and the self-examination of Montaigne. The autobiography of Saint Teresa of Avila (trans. 1601) set the confessional tone which was followed, for example, by Jean-Joseph Surin (1600–65), one of the Loudun exorcists, who chronicled his spiritual odyssey from error to grace. Soldiers, like Bassompierre (1579–1646), recounted