Narducci was born on 3 September 1473 in Bandino area in
Florence. She was the daughter of Tommaso di Jacopo Narducci, a farmer and groundskeeper who worked in the gardens of Chiesa di Santa Brigida al Paradiso. At the new convent, she became known for her extreme piety and assisted the
Medici family in spiritual matters. Advocate of her own reforms for the
Second order of the Dominicans, she was an outspoken critic of the first order who supported the controversial Dominican preacher
Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498). In 1515, she established the
Convento della Crocetta in Florence. She continued to be a significant figure in Italian religious life in later years, exchanging correspondence with Pope
Paul III and
Clement VII. She died in 1553 in
Florence with a reputation of holiness. Many devout Florentines thought that Narducci had protected them from the plague in the centuries that followed her death. ==Beatification==