Tau PublishingThe Story of Assisi
Illustrated by Nelly Erichsen and M. Helen James
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- ISBN, perfect bound
- 978-1-61956-743-6
- ISBN, EPUB ebook
- 978-1-61956-309-4
- ISBN, PDF ebook
- 978-1-61956-310-0
- Pages
- 293
- Size
- 6 × 9 in
- Edition
- Perfect bound, Tau Publishing edition, 2026, with a new introduction and notes by Jeffrey Campbell (first published 1900)
- Language
- English
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About this book
“Our city is a city of the dead, of memories only.” — a young man of Assisi, 1900
Lina Duff Gordon did not believe him, and this book is her answer: a loving portrait of the Seraphic City, from its legendary founding and its long, bloody feuds with Perugia to the life of the merchant’s son who became St. Francis.
She walked every lane she describes. She leads the reader through the Basilica of San Francesco and its frescoes by Cimabue, Giotto and Simone Martini, to San Damiano and Santa Chiara, up to the hermitage of the Carceri, and down to the Porziuncola among the pilgrims of the August Pardon.
This edition presents her complete text with all of the original illustrations, together with a new introduction and notes by Jeffrey Campbell on Assisi since 1900, from the return of the friars to the earthquake of 1997 and the eight hundredth anniversary of the death of St. Francis.
Inside
- Introduction to the Tau Edition by Jeffrey Campbell
- Chapters from War and Strife to the churches and gates of the city
- The original drawings and photographs, and a plan of Assisi
- Notes to This Edition and Index
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