Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Textual History
Authorship
Date and Place of Composition
The Manuscript
Editorial Principles
A Note on the Translation
Linguistic Analysis by Pär Larson, Istituto Opera del Vocabolario Italiano
Meditations on the Life of Christ: The Short Italian Text
Prologue. Here begins the prologue of the meditations on the life of Our Lord Jesus Christ, whose teaching is the seed of prudence, whose life is the mirror of temperance and patience.
1. Here begins the Incarnation of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
2. How Our Lady went to visit Saint Elizabeth
3. How Joseph wished to abandon Our Lady.
4. How Lord Jesus Christ was born into the world.
5. How Our Lord Jesus was circumcised.
6. How the kings came to worship Christ with their gifts.
7. How Lord Christ Our Lord was presented at the temple.
8. How Our Lady fled into Egypt with Lord Jesus.
9. How Our Lady returned from Egypt to Nazareth.
10. How the child Lord Jesus remained in Jerusalem.
11. How Our Lord remained subject to his mother and to Joseph from the time he was twelve years old until thirty; and of the things that you may imagine that he did during this time, even though it is not found in any scripture that he did anything.
12. How Our Lord Jesus Christ went to the river Jordan to be baptized by Saint John.
13. How Lord Jesus Christ fasted forty days and forty nights in the desert and how he was tempted by the devil.
14. How Lord Jesus Christ Our Lord entered Jerusalem on Palm Sunday on a donkey.
15. How Our Lord Jesus dined on Holy Wednesday with his disciples in Bethany in the house of Magdalene.
16. How Lord Jesus celebrated the supper on Holy Thursday with his disciples on Mount Syon.
17. How Our Lord Jesus Christ washed the feet of his disciples, and how he established the sacrament of his own body and gave it to his disciples.
18. Of the beautiful sermon that Lord Jesus Christ gave to his disciples after communion, and the departure of Judas.
19. How Lord Jesus Christ went to the garden.
20. How Judas came with the high priests to capture Lord Jesus in the garden with weapons and lances and lanterns.
21. How Lord Jesus was led to Pilate at prime.
22. How Our Lord Jesus Christ was bound naked to a column, and how he was harshly flogged.
23. How Pilate sentenced our savior Lord Jesus Christ to death on the cross, and how he carried the cross on his shoulders, and what was done to him, and how Our Lady went to see him.
24. How Lord Jesus was put on the cross between two thieves to increase his shame.
25. How the soldiers of Pilate came to Mount Calvary to break the legs of the thieves and Lord Jesus.
26. How Joseph and Nichodemus came to Mount Calvary to take the body of Lord Jesus down from the cross.
27. How on Saturday Our Lady remained at the house with the doors locked for fear of the Jews, and how the disciples gathered together.
28. How the soul of Christ went to limbo, and how he rose, and how he appeared to his mother and to the three Marys, and other things that he did.
29. How Lord Jesus appeared to his disciples the week after the Resurrection while they were staying at home with the doors locked; and other things that one can conclude that he did.
30. How Our Lord Jesus ascended into heaven and finished his journey.
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