READING LIST
The Holy Bible (Douay-Rheims Edition) - (w/ Saint’s commentaries) - (Edizione Ricciotti)
The Catechism of the Catholic Church.
The Catechism of the Council of Trent- (ITA)
Saint Dionysus the Areopagite (1st century): Mystical Theology - The Celestial Hierarchy.
Saint Athanasius (296): De Incarnatione Verbi Dei.
Saint Ephrem the Syrian (306): Hymns on Paradise.
Saint Augustine (354): The City of God Against the Pagans.
Pope Saint Gregory the Great (540): The Book of Pastoral Rule.
Saint Maximus the Confessor (580): The Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ - Imago Dei - Ascetic Life.
Saint John Damascene (676): On Holy Images.
Saint Bonaventure (1221): The Threefold Way to God.
Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225): Summa Theologiae I - V - (ITA)
Dante Alighieri (1265): The Divine Comedy (ENG - ITA).
Saint Vincent Ferrer (1350): The Sermons.
Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491): Spiritual Exercises.
Saint Francis de Sales (1566): Introduction to the Devout Life.
Saint Leonard of Port Maurice (1676): The Little Number of Those Who Are Saved.
Saint Alphonsus Liguori (1696): On Mental Prayer.
Pope Saint Leo XIII (1810): Rerum Novarum (Encyclical on Capital and Labor).
Pope Saint Pius X (1835): Pascendi Dominici Gregis (Encyclical Against Modernism).
Cardinal Johannes Baptiste Franzelin (1886): De Divina Traditione.
J.R.R Tolkien (1892): On Faerie Stories.
Painting Technique
Struttura Uomo (Manuale di Anatomia Artistica)
Andrew Loomis - Figure Drawing for All it’s Worth.
Cennino Cennini - Il Libro dell’Arte.
Bardwell - Practical Treatise on Painting in Oil Colours.