Tau PublishingThe Little Flowers of St. Francis
Fioretti di San Francesco, adapted from the William Heywood English translation of 1904
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- ISBN, perfect bound
- 978-1-61956-734-4
- ISBN, EPUB ebook
- 978-1-61956-331-5
- ISBN, PDF ebook
- 978-1-61956-332-2
- Pages
- 76
- Size
- 5.5 × 8.5 in
- Edition
- Perfect bound first edition, June 2026
- Language
- English
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About this book
In the hill towns of medieval Italy, a young man walked away from wealth and warfare, and changed the world.
The Little Flowers of St. Francis gathers the best-loved stories of history’s most joyful saint: how he preached to the birds and tamed a ferocious wolf, how he embraced lepers and kissed poverty as a bride, how his brothers squabbled and stumbled and were transformed by grace. Around him moves a cast of unforgettable characters: Brother Juniper, Brother Giles, and Brother Massé, who preached in a language he had never learned.
This edition renders William Heywood’s 1904 English version in smooth, contemporary prose, keeping the warmth and wit of the original without the dust of archaic language. It includes all fifty-one chapters and the Twelve Considerations on the Stigmata.
Inside
- Introduction, Translator’s Note and Preface
- Fifty-one chapters, from the first companions to the healing of a paralytic
- The Wolf of Gubbio (Chapter Forty-Seven)
- The Twelve Considerations on the Stigmata
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