Confessiones: Sancti Aurelii Augustini (Latin Edition)

Confessiones is Augustine of Hippo’s most personal and enduring work: a spiritual autobiography written as a sustained prayer to God. Across thirteen books, Augustine looks back on childhood, education, ambition, friendship, sensual desire, intellectual restlessness, and the long path that led him from Carthage and Rome to Milan, where the preaching of Ambrose and the famous tolle, lege conversion transformed the course of his life.

Yet the Confessions is far more than autobiography. In its later books Augustine turns inward and upward, reflecting on memory, desire, temptation, time, creation, Scripture, and the soul’s longing for God. The personal history of one man becomes a profound meditation on human nature, divine grace, and the restless search for the good in which the heart can finally find rest.

This Nicholean Press edition presents the complete work in the original Latin, newly typeset for clear and comfortable reading.

Features include:

• Complete Latin text of Books I–XIII
• Extensive glossary of Augustinian theological, philosophical, biblical, and literary vocabulary
• Clear book and section divisions
• Historical illustrations placed throughout the work
• Classical 6 × 9 format
• Newly typeset by Nicholean Press

Ideal for students of Latin, patristics, theology, philosophy, and the Church Fathers, this edition offers direct access to one of the foundational works of Christian antiquity in Augustine’s own language.