l commento di Pietro Casola al Canon Missae: testo e osservazioni a margine (II)

Abstract

Following on from the first part of the commentary on the Canon contained in Pietro Casola’s Rationale cerimoniarum misse ambrosiane, as presented in this review’s previous issue, here follows, by way of completion, the section which runs from Quam oblationem to the concluding doxology. While requiring a differentiation of the more dated argumentations from those which preserve their timeless value (in so far as the former are dependant on the medieval reflection on the subject), the text’s analysis favours the detailed examination of questions connected to the interpretation of that which in today’s missals is defined as Eucharistic Prayer I. The knowledge of the theological-liturgical thought of a cultured ecclesiastic of the humanist period stimulates the reexamination of the anaphora which imposed itself as the only one in the West up to the reform of the Council.