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About Aloisio Gardellini
- Aloisio Gardellini (August 4, 1759 in Rome – October 8, 1829) was an Italian editor and compiler of religious documents. He wrote a collection of the decrees of the Congregation of Rites.
- Until 1587, the celebration of the Sacrifice of the Mass and the administration of the sacraments had been subject to regulations made by various popes.
- Necessarily, in the course of time, these regulations became somewhat confused by reason of overlapping, amplification, and abolition.
- In the year mentioned above, Pope Sixtus V, in the Constitution "Immensae aeterni Dei", called into being a body of cardinals, bishops, and clerics, whose work was to guard and guide the decorous celebration of the church offices.
- A collection of papal regulations and congregational decrees was published in 1730 by John Baptist Pithonius, a Venetian priest, the title of his book being "Constitutiones pontificae et Romanorum Congregationum decisiones ad sacros Ritus spectantes".
- This work was somewhat imperfect, and it was not until 1807 that Gardellini published the first two volumes of his well-known collection of the decrees of the Congregation of Rites, to which was prefixed "Sacrorum rituum studiosis monitum".
- Three further volumes were published in 1816, and a sixth volume was brought out in 1819.
- This volume contained more recent decrees down to the date of publication, and also the Commentary on the Clementine Instruction regarding the devotion of the Forty Hours.
- Accordingly, a new and corrected edition was published in 1827, and in this edition he included certain answers given between the years 1558 and 1599.
- Gardellini was appointed assessor of the Congregation of Rites.
- Other editions of the decrees have been issued subsequently.
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