This 1842 edition gathers selected prose from the Vite de’ Santi Padri, rendered into vernacular Italian by the 14th-century Dominican Fra Domenico Cavalca. A luminous conduit of early Christian asceticism and desert mysticism, Cavalca’s prose carries the austere grace of the Latin Fathers into the warm cadence of medieval Tuscany.

Reverently printed in a century fascinated by medieval revivalism, this volume offers more than hagiography—it is a spiritual document shaped by linguistic devotion and moral clarity. An artifact of Italian religious humanism, where sanctity and style are inseparably entwined.