De Imitatione Christi. Libri Quatuor. Edizione critica a cura di Tiburzio Lupo [Italian]

In Latiin, with preface, introduction and notes in Italian. Fr. Tiburzio Lupo's critical edition of De Imitatione Christi (The Imitation of Christ), first written by Catholic monk Thomas Kempis (circa 1380-1471) as four separate books completed between 1420 and 1427, at Mount Saint Agnes monastery, in the town of Windesheim, located in what is now the Netherlands. He wrote these works for the instruction of novices of his Augustinian monastic order, followers of Geert Groote's Brethren of the Common Life. But the writings quickly became popular among all the literate faithful. There is probably no other book apart from the Bible which has been printed in so many editions and translations.