St. Francis of Assisi

Category: Biography

Publishing Information: 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.

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