FOREWORD TO THE SIXTH EDITION

...subsequent editors will prefer, for certain passages, a more flawless version; it is possible that, later on, translators may emerge who are more committed than Hello was to following word-for-word the definitive text of the Blessed woman Refers to Angela of Foligno (c. 1248–1309), the Italian mystic and author of the text..

But none, surely, will be able to rival Hello Ernest Hello (1828–1885) was a French Catholic philosopher and writer whose 1868 translation of Angela's works, though not strictly literal, was highly influential in the 19th-century mystical revival. in what he calls "accuracy according to the spirit, which infuses the author's blood from one language into another" — accuracy according to the spirit, which even tries "to translate tears."

February 1921