Letters of St. Philip Neri
The twenty-six authentic letters of St. Philip Neri (1515-1595) as published by Alfonso Capecelatro in the Documents of his Life of St. Philip Neri (1879): to Francesco Vai, to St. Charles Borromeo, to Cardinal Federigo Borromeo, to the Trievi nuns of Florence, to Fiora Ragni and other spiritual children, each with the editor’s summary. A twenty-seventh letter, to the coadjutor of Bologna, which the earlier prints omit, is added in Italian. The Italian is from OCR and not proofread against the page images; the English is the translation in Antrobus’s edition of Bacci, letter for letter.
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Source: Letters I-XXVI and the final letter to the coadjutor of Bologna, with Capecelatro’s summaries. Page furniture and hyphenation were stripped by script and obvious OCR slips corrected by a list of fixes; the text was not proofread against the scan and still carries stray OCR errors (roughly 1% of words), and a few of the editor’s footnotes may be left inline. · Letters I-XXVI with their summaries; Antrobus’s notes on the addressees are kept as footnotes. OCR cleaned by script and a list of fixes, not proofread; residual errors remain. The fragment to Tiberio is headed as such. Antrobus’s all-capitals Latin inscription quoted in a note to letter XXIV was too corrupt to keep.