St. Bonaventure

Bonaventure's Breviloquium, a concise systematic presentation of Christian theology in a prologue and seven parts. Latin transcription from the Quaracchi critical edition, Opera omnia, tomus V (1882), pp. 201-291.

Bonaventure's De reductione artium ad theologiam from the Quaracchi critical edition, Opera omnia t. V (1891), pp. 317-325.

A brief prefatory introduction to the books of Peter Lombard's Sentences, organized around the scriptural image of the circuit of heaven and transmitted with an editorial argument on circumincession.

Bonaventure's Itinerarium mentis in Deum (1259): the soul's six-step ascent to God through his footprints in the sensible world, his image reformed by grace, and the divine Being and Good, crowned by mystical ecstasy. Latin: Quaracchi critical text; English: Thomas Davidson's 1887 translation improved with AI.

Bonaventure's Lignum vitae (Tree of Life): forty-eight meditations on the life, passion, and glorification of Christ, ordered as twelve fruits on a mystical tree, with a closing prayer for the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit. Latin: Quaracchi critical text; English: new ScholaThomistica translation.