St. Robert Bellarmine’s De arte bene moriendi, first published in 1620, considers how to live in preparation for death and how to meet the final hour. The work has two books, with sixteen and seventeen chapters respectively.
This reading translation follows the Latin text in Opera omnia, volume VIII, edited by Justin Fèvre (Paris: Louis Vivès, 1875). The introductory note is editorial; Bellarmine’s preface follows.
The source volume is available at Internet Archive. Selected source comparisons have corrected broken joins, short omissions, and transcription errors. This is a reading translation; a complete scholarly review has not been established.
These English drafts were prepared with AI assistance using SWE-2 Max and then edited for Remember Eternity. Website review has checked structure, source provenance, and selected passages and corrections; it has not checked every sentence against the original. This is not a certified translation or an ecclesiastically approved edition.
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This English translation from the Latin was drafted with AI assistance using SWE-2 Max and prepared as a reading edition for this library. Review has included source provenance, section structure, and selected source comparisons and corrections. It has not included a complete independent, sentence-by-sentence translation audit.
Translated from the Latin text in Bellarmine’s Opera omnia, volume VIII, edited by Justin Fèvre (Paris: Louis Vivès, 1875). The introductory note is editorial.
This is a reading copy, not a critical edition. No professional translation certification or ecclesiastical approval is claimed for this modern edition.
No general reuse licence is specified for this modern translation or its source transcription. The age of the original work does not by itself establish their reuse terms.
Remember Eternity · remembereternity.org. AI-assisted English translation drafted with SWE-2 Max from the Latin; selected source comparisons and corrections only. No complete independent translation audit or ecclesiastical approval is claimed. Translated from the Latin text in Bellarmine’s Opera omnia, volume VIII, edited by Justin Fèvre (Paris: Louis Vivès, 1875). The introductory note is editorial. No general reuse licence is specified for this modern translation or its source transcription.