Category: Biography

Copyright/published Year: 1957 by Doubleday Image Book

Binding: mass mark

Description: By universal acclaim, this biography by G. K. Chesterton is ì considered the best appreciation of Francis's life--the one that ì gets to the heart of the matter. For Chesterton, Francis is a ì great paradoxical figure, a man who loved women but vowed himself ì to chastity; an artist who loved the pleasures of the natural ì world as few have loved them, but vowed himself to the most ì austere poverty, stripping himself naked in the public square so ì all could see that he had renounced his worldly goods; a clown ì who stood on his head in order to see the world aright. ì Chesterton gives us Francis in his world-the riotously colorful ì world of the High Middle Ages, a world with more pageantry and ì romance than we have seen before or since. Here is the Francis ì who tried to end the Crusades by talking to the Saracens, and who ì interceded with the emperor on behalf of the birds. Here is the ì Francis who inspired a revolution in art that began with Giotto ì and a revolution in poetry that began with Dante. Here is the ì Francis who prayed and danced with pagan abandon, who talked to ì animals, who invented the creche.

Condition Information

This is a used book and is in 'Acceptable' condition.

Additional 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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