The Complete Works of Saint Dionysius the Areopagite

...[the most] skilled The Latin text here is a fragment, "-tissimus," the end of a superlative adjective likely meaning "most skilled" (peritissimus) or "most famous" (celebratissimus), referring to the printer Antonio Zatta mentioned on the previous page. Venetian printer produced, we now bring forth once more into the light in a more convenient format and at a very modest price. Whether we have acted inopportunely in this matter, let fair judges of such things decide. But if, by their judgment, we understand that our undertaking was not ill-timed, then we shall take heart to faithfully reproduce, under the modest format of this volume, other theological writings of Christian antiquity The "Church Fathers" or early Christian theologians from the first few centuries of the Church., which until now have been sought in vain by most people, either because of the scarcity of copies exemplarium In the context of early printing, an "exemplar" refers to an individual physical copy of a book. or because of their great price.