Gabriel Francis Powers, a biographer, said of Mother Maddalena:
She had all the Old-World charm, the exquisiteness of manner and address, the grave, deliberate courtesy of those ancient saloni of the Italian nobility where haste was unknown and indecent and where all matters were ordered harmoniously as if by some social ritual. To this native refinement was superadded charity, making the” beautiful thought and beautiful word  spring directly from the heart.  -- A Woman of the Bentivoglio