Spirit and matter, in the poetics of Father Costantino, appear almost inseparable: one draws value from the other, the other from the one. […]
Spirit and matter, therefore, having intervened in turn “along the road” (sometimes holding hands—as in the Psalm—sometimes struggling in angelic contrast and in alternating fortunes) find themselves, at the end, calmed and joined in an indissoluble spiritual nuptials.
Thus the work—born of such a tormented love—can be considered, of this spiritual nuptials, the most beautiful “ornament”…