Il commento di Pietro Casola al Canon Missae: testo e osservazioni a margine (I)

Abstract

Among the incunabula of the Seminary of the Archdiocese of Milan’s Library in Venegono Inf. Varese one comes across a copy of the Rationale cerimoniarum misse ambrosiane published by P. Casola in 1499. This contribution, having placed the work within the broader framework of the author’s production, identifies as area of investigation his comment on the Canon and spends time, in this first part, on the section which extends from the preface dialogue up to the Hanc igitur. While giving the reader first hand access to the latin it provides a confronted text with an almost literal translation, equipped with observations which make for a simpler comprehension of the text; furthermore the passages in which Casola depends directly on the source are indicated, as are those from which he shows to distance himself, also due to the Ambrosian particularity.