PALEOTTI, Alfonso.

by Alfonso Paleotti

£3,750 · Offered by Sokol Books

.Second edition of this fascinating and attractively illustrated treatise on the Shroud of Turin in the .Italian vernacular. This is the most important text on the Shroud published since its transfer to Turin .fifteen years earlier and one of the first books entirely devoted to describing a single relic. .Doctor of canon law and theology, Alfonso Paleotti (1531-1610) taught for many years at the .University of Bologna. After a period in Rome, he was appointed Canon and then Archbishop of the .Cathedral of Bologna. Exposition of the Sacred Shroud is his most known work, composed as he .explains in the introduction after visiting Turin with his cousin Gabriele and Cardinal Carlo .Borromeo in occasion of the 1582 ostension of the Shroud. This curious treatise, imbued with .mysticism, begins with two brief chapters on the history of the Shroud, focusing also on the Roman .practices of flagellation and crucifixion. The rest of the volume is dedicated to explaining the .fundamental role of the relic for devotion to the wounds of Christ, which are carefully presented one .by one with systematic and exceptional precision. The first edition of 1598 was censored and revised .by the Holy Office, as Paleotti s comments on some of the wounds particularly in chapters dealing .with hands and feet were not in line with the tradition. For example, in the first version of the text, .Paleotti argued that the nails were not inserted in Christ s hands as it is commonly believed (because .they cou

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