This is the description of the Letters CPT
Dearest Father, I am in the seventh day of my residence in the Chancery Building – and I am happy; particularly of the happy, sociable, and holy disposition of our my most loving Patron1. Outside of Him – all proceeds with etiquette and the Mayordomo2 is the rigid and scrupulous guardian of all the rules …
I’ve just come back from the Sacrament of confession with a purified soul and with palpitating heart full of heavenly joy: therefore I send to you a word of love, of that kind of love which renders us, as I already told you quoting the Apostle Paul,1 consummati in unum. I don’t have the time …
Silence – – with everyone – – Scripta manent1 – – words fade away, but what is put in writing remains. I have a thousand things to tell you, but since God alone has the prerogative of exhausting a subject at one time, I shall have to resign myself, like everyone else, to filtering my …
My very good Riccio, I am writing to you a few things in a hurry. I enjoyed your letter very much because I learned from it many things, and precious news. I admire and praise your great industriousness. Since laziness is the father of vice so too is industriousness the mother of virtues. After having …
…1 our vacations are quickly coming to an end. We had one hundred and fifty days of vacation and we have already spent half. What can we do? Peruccati wrote to me again saying that he is now near Cividale2 in the mountains among the Slavic people and the Slovenians. Now I know that they …
[N.B.1] …But, let the will of God be done Who, as St. Paul says, will not let you be tested beyond your strength. Along with the test He will give you the strength to endure it.2 So pray for me. Concerning my third driving thought, Riccio is at the root of it because for two …
[Editor’s note]1…Having given up being for God, I began to live for an idol of flesh and then for another more jealous and demanding end — ambition. The seductive images and caressing promises of this deceptive goddess had led me to the point of not thinking and not desiring anything else but one thing: the …
My dear friend, I have received with the greatest pleasure your most polished letter written in the grand language — that is, in the worldwide language of France. Apart from French self-conceit, I have to tell you that this language pleases me and that having written to me in French, you have given me the …
Dear Little Joe, I hasten to answer your dearest letter after a period of some days — I didn’t have any stamps — now I am well provided. So? By this time the decision must have been made already, and with what rectitude. I have always known you to be inexorable and very firm in …
My Riccio, most dear and most pungent1, …2 and so I offer you a million reasons. I’ve been lazy, it’s true. I’ve sinned by neglect, I grant you. There is no satisfactory excuse I can offer — Here I make a distinction: an excuse that would be sufficient to totally protect me from your every …
From the hills of San Martino Tanaro1 Sixth period of the autumnal Era divided into six twenty day periods. Dear Friend from Montafia2 The other day Riccio wrote me a terrible threatening letter, summoning me to render an account of my strange behavior towards my friends. In your regard he wrote me that you …
