Though this is the Italian version, it is noteworthy to mention that the English edition was translated by J.D. Hilarius Dale and published as Ceremonial According to the Roman Rite. It was this former work that served as the catalyst for Fortescue's indispensable classic, The Ceremonies of the Roman Rite Described.

Esposizione delle Sacre Cerimonie includes chapters on:

• Instructions for celebrant at private (Low) Mass

• Instructions for serving a private (Low) Mass (for a pontifical Low Mass with chaplains, for a cardinal or the local ordinary, for a simple priest)

• Solemn Mass (the clergy in choir, the order of Communion, the master of ceremonies, thurifer, acolytes, subdeacon, deacon and celebrant, when celebrated coram Sanctissimo).

• Solemn Requiem Mass
  Missa Cantata (i.e., High Mass without sacred ministers)

• Missa Cantata assisted with an MC who is a tonsured cleric, or in sacred orders, or by two tonsured clerics, etc.

• Instructions for chanted Vespers (the various ministers, etc.)

• For annual principle functions (Candlemas, Lent, Ash Wednesday, Palm Sunday, Tenebrae, Sacred Triduum, Corpus Christi, All Souls, Advent, etc.)

• Instructions for Pontifical Mass and Vespers at the faldstool.

This is a coil-bound copy, containing some  scattered underlining present in the original book. Only a limited number of reproductions were made, so this book will be offered by Romanitas Press while copies are still available.