modern times "for the sake of clarity". Recent editions of the text are by Felicita Portalupi (University of Turin, 1961) and William Theodore Wiesner (Catholic University of America, 1970). Both those editions are based on the 1896 Latin text by Karl Schenkl for the Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, as is the Catholic University's translation of seven of Ambrose's works, including De bono mortis. References Further reading Christianity and death Works by Ambrose