Audi, Filia (1556): Christian Counsels and Rules

Name: Audi, Filia (1556): Christian Counsels and Rules
Author: St. John of Ávila

St. John of Ávila

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The first printed redaction of the «Audi, filia» (Alcalá de Henares, Juan de Brocar, 1556): «Christian counsels and rules for those who wish to serve God, advancing on the spiritual way, composed on David's verse: Audi, filia, et vide, et inclina aurem tuam», with the dedication to the Count of Palma, the Brief Rule of Christian Life and six major parts on the six words of the verse. Luis Sala Balust's edition (1963) in sixteenth-century spelling; the headings in brackets are the editor's. Distinct from the 1574 redaction, which has its own book.

Source: The text of the 1556 Alcalá edition, as edited by Sala Balust: dedication, bookseller's note, Breve regla and the six parts, split at the editor's headings. Not imported: the editor's introduction, the three appendices (Pedro Fernández de Córdoba's life of doña Sancha Carrillo, the censure, the 1573 text) and the indexes. The editor's scripture-reference notes are listed at the end of the chapters where the OCR kept them (about two thirds); their markers in the text are lost. Folio marks of the 1556 print and its line-break slashes are removed.