The Little blossoms of ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi

The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi

The Little Flowers of St. Francis (Italian Fioretti di San Francesco) is a florilegium (excerpts of his body of work), divided into 53 short chapters, on the life of Saint Francis of Assisi which was created at the end of the 14th century. I believe the anonymous Italian text, nearly absolutely by a Tuscan author, is a type of the Latin 'Actus beati Francisci et sociorum eius', of which the soonest extant manuscript is one of 1390 A.D. Luke Wadding ...