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St. Francis of Assisi
Category: Biography
Author: G. K. Chesterton
Copyright/published Year: 1957 by Doubleday Image Book
Binding: mass mark
By universal acclaim, this biography by G. K. Chesterton is
considered the best appreciation of Francis's life--the one that
gets to the heart of the matter. For Chesterton, Francis is a
great paradoxical figure, a man who loved women but vowed himself
to chastity; an artist who loved the pleasures of the natural
world as few have loved them, but vowed himself to the most
austere poverty, stripping himself naked in the public square so
all could see that he had renounced his worldly goods; a clown
who stood on his head in order to see the world aright.
Chesterton gives us Francis in his world-the riotously colorful
world of the High Middle Ages, a world with more pageantry and
romance than we have seen before or since. Here is the Francis
who tried to end the Crusades by talking to the Saracens, and who
interceded with the emperor on behalf of the birds. Here is the
Francis who inspired a revolution in art that began with Giotto
and a revolution in poetry that began with Dante. Here is the
Francis who prayed and danced with pagan abandon, who talked to
animals, who invented the creche.
Condition Information
This is a used book.
'Acceptable' condition.
Condition Description
First Image Books Edition printing. January 1957. Mass Market paper size. Text is clean and unmarked. Inside front cover has casrd pocket glued to it. Top 2" of spine paper missing. Glue coming loose along spine, but all pages connected.
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