Francis of Assisi: a Revolutionary Life
Mahwah, NY: Hidden Spring, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket.
No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Still Gift Quality. The Mylar protected dust jacket has some manufacturing/shipping soil on the rear panel. 8vo; 9.25 inches tall; 336 pages with Chapter Notes, Bibliography and Index. Color photograph illustrations; map endpages.
Although the whole of Francis's life was based on his belief in God, he was the least dogmatic of saints, seeing himself as God's troubadour or fool. It is unnecessary to share his faith in order to appreciate his soaring achievements.
His feelings for creation, epitomized in his sermon to the birds, stimulated the realism of the Italian Renaissance artists; his vernacular poems inclined Dante to write The Divine Comedy in Italian, not Latin. The first religious order he founded, for men, had a radical effect on social justice and the developing universities in Europe.
Item #16364
ISBN: 1587680092
Price: $35.00
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