Illustrissimi facts for kids
Illustrissimi (To the Illustrious Ones) is a book written by Pope John Paul I when he was Patriarch of Venice.
The book is a collection of letters which were first published in the Italian Christian paper Messaggero di S. Antonio between 1972 and 1975. They were re-printed in book form in Italy in 1976.
The work was first published in English in 1978 when Cardinal Luciani was elected Pope, but it only reached the public after the death of John Paul I.
The letters
The 40 letters in all are addressed to people in Italian history and fiction, including
- Charles Dickens
- Mark Twain
- G. K. Chesterton
- Maria Theresa of Austria
- Charles Peguy
- Trilussa
- St Bernard of Clairvaux
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- King David
- Penelope
- Figaro
- The Pickwick Club
- Pinocchio
- Paolo Diacono
- Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordova
- St Bernardino of Siena
- St Francis de Sales
- St Romedio's Bear
- P.I. Chichikov
- King Lemuel
- Sir Walter Scott
- The Unknown Painter at the Castle
- Hippocrates
- St Thérèse de Lisieux
- Alessandro Manzoni
- Casella
- Luigi Cornaro
- St Bonaventure
- Christopher Marlowe
- St Luke
- Quintilian
- Guglielmo Marconi
- Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli
- Félix Dupanloup
- Petrarch
- St Theresa of Avila
- Carlo Goldoni
- Andreas Hofer
- Jesus
Images for kids
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Albino Luciani, Patriarch of Venice
See also
In Spanish: Illustrissimi para niños
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