"By early modern Roman law, persons born deaf, if they could neither speak nor write, could not make their last will and testament. In the event recounted here, thanks to a coordinated effort by her family, her advocates, papal officialdom, her beneficiaries, and Magdalena herself, the formally impossible proved possible."
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https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/renaissance-quarterly/article/abs/magdalena-deaf-and-mute-makes-her-roman-will-1590/D9A3913B6EC8509228EE56BA48181EE7