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.