The volume presented on the occasion of the Conference "The Six 'We Want'. The Magisterium of John Paul I in the Light of Archival Papers" edited by the Scientific Committee of the John Paul I Vatican Foundation constitutes the first critical edition of all the speeches and addresses delivered by Pope Luciani during the 34 days of his Pontificate. The work is the result of careful philological work conducted through the complete synopsis of the speeches written and delivered and the transcription of Pope Luciani's autograph diary and personal notepad used during his pontificate. The work of research and analysis was conducted on audiovisual repertoire material, on printed texts of an official nature reported by the organs of the Holy See, on the Acta Apostolicae Sedis and on papers from Albino Luciani's private Archive, the patrimony of the John Paul I Vatican Foundation, which will be presented here for the first time. The volume consists of two parts, the first centering on the texts written and spoken by John Paul I, and a second relating to the analysis and transcription of the pontificate's diary and notebooks. The work on the sources is accompanied by a preface by Pope Francis and an introduction by philologist Prof. Carlo Ossola. In the first part of the volume, in a list that is now believed to be nearly complete, the corpus of original texts and speeches from the pontificate of John Paul I is presented, consisting of a total of 42 census texts, of which: 25 delivered speeches, 14 written documents of various kinds, and 3 texts that had been prepared by the Pope for publication and disclosed posthumously with the endorsement of the Secretariat of State. John Paul I was the first Pontiff to have consistently adopted a colloquial style in his speeches, which ignores or often modifies the prepared written text with off-the-cuff additions. Hence the finding of numerous and sometimes glaring discrepancies and omissions between the audio recordings of the time and the official printed texts published during his pontificate and after his death. The second part of the volume reproduces and transcribes the autograph pages of the personal diary and the handwritten notebook sheets used by John Paul I during the thirty-four days of his pontificate. These two documents are to be considered the genesis of part of the texts that constitute his pontifical magisterium and belong to the corpus of papers of the Albino Luciani - John Paul I Private Archive. The corpus of papers, patrimony of the Foundation, is composed of a very rich collection of heterogeneous documentary material, including the set of autograph writings, notebooks, diaries, typescripts, printed and photographic material, and correspondence, spanning a wide span of time: from 1929 until September 28, 1978. The personal diary penned during the pontificate is the same one also used in Venice during 1977 and 1978, and contains various handwritten notes on various topics. Of particular note among them are the minutes of the texts pronounced before the Sunday Angelus, preparatory outlines intended for two meetings with the faithful, and notes for the four general audiences on the three theological virtues - faith, hope and charity - preceded by the audience on humility. The pontificate notebook contains twelve handwritten sheets with brief reminders of appointments, notes of speeches. The editorial coordination, source matching work and critical apparatus of the notes are by Stefania Falasca, coordinator of the Scientific Committee. Davide Fiocco collaborated on the philological work. Pia Luciani, granddaughter of John Paul I, contributed to the work of transcribing the texts. The transcription and full revision of the texts was edited by Lina Petri, granddaughter of John Paul I.
