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Veröffentlichung:	Oktober 2007
Genre:	Philosophie
ISBN:	9781408630846
EAN-Code:	9781408630846
Verlag:	Greenbie Press
Einband:	Kartoniert
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 216 mm / B 140 mm / D 25 mm
Gewicht:	595 gr
Seiten:	424
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THE LITTLE FLOWERS, LIFE AND MIRROR OF ST. FRANCIS -- INTRODUCTION Then shalt thou feel thy spirit so possest And ravisht with devouring great desire Of His deare selfe, that shall thy feeble brest Inflame with love and set thee all on fire With burning zeafe through evety part entire, That in no earthlyPthing thou shalt delight But in His sweet and amiable sight. SINCE the appearance of Paul Sabatiers Vie de Saint Frangois ddssise in 1894, the starting-point of the neo-Franciscan movement, scholars have disputed with much unfranciscan acrimony concerning the relative value of existing documentary authorities the main outlines, however, of the life of the founder of the Franciscan order are clear enough. Giovanni Bernadone, better known as Francesco, tenderest and sweetest of Christian saints, was born at Assisi in 1182. The male child that the Lady Pica, wife of the wealthy mercer, Pietro Bernadone, brought into the world during her husbands absence in France, received the baptismal name of Giovanni and it was probably on his return that the joyous father substituted the name of Francesco. The little lad was in due course sent to the priests school at the church of St. Giorgio, and there received the usual education of a mediaval schoolboy. He was not a diligent scholar. We need not accept too literally his own description of himself as ignorant and unschooled, for he read, dictated, and spoke Latin although with difficulty, and, as befitted the son of a merchant, early acquired a knowledge of French. The only work by St. Francis we possess, other than in Latin, is a poetical rhapsody composed in the Umbrian dialect, and more nearly akin to the formless inspirations of Walt Whitmanthan to any known metrical model. If, indeed, the famous Hymn to the Sun be the work of St. Francis at all, for an eminent Italian scholar, after subjecting that composition to an exhaustive criticism, concludes that at most it is but a very unfaithful echo of an improvisation that burst from the lips of the seraphic father when he was assured of the near approach 1 Epist. ad cap. gen. 5. Quia ignorans sum et ydiota. v11 viii The Little Flowers of St. Francis of celestial felicity or it may be nothing more than a refashioning of the 148th Psalm and the Song of the Three Holy Children, composed at the end of the thirteenth century, without a breath of the poetic spirit with which the seraphic father was so exquisitely endowed. l Francis was neither a good boy nor an exemplary youth. Fond and foolish parents indulged him with an early command of money he was endowed with a romantic and emotional temperament, and association with gay, dissolute, and pleasure-loving companions led to a wasted early manhood. The ancient city of Assisi at the beginning of the thirteenth century was far different from the decayed, poverty-stricken Assisi of to-day. It was a rich and busy trading centre, with a turbulent aristocracy. Its traditions of communal freedom, never lost since Roman days, had been stirred by the general rising of the towns of Northern Italy against their German imperial oppressors, which culminated at Legnano I I 76, where the mail-clad hosts of Barbarossa had bitten the dust before the stout burgesses of the Lombard League...