Little Flowers of St. Francis
- Little Flowers of St. Francis
The "Little Flowers of St. Francis" (Italian "Fioretti di San Francesco") is a florilegium, divided into 53 short chapters, on the life of Saint Francis of Assisi which was composed at the end of the 14th century. The anonymous Italian text, almost certainly by a Tuscan author, is a version of the Latin "Actus beati Francisci et sociorum eius," of which the earliest extant manuscript is one of 1390 A.D. Luke Wadding, a 17th century Franciscan historian ascribes the text to Fra. Ugolino da Santa Maria, whose name occurs three times in the "Actus".
Written some time after the death of Francis of Assisi, the text is not regarded as an important primary source for the saint’s biographyFact|date=September 2008. However, it has been the most popular account of his life and relates many colorful anecdotes, miracles and pious examples from the lives of Francis and his followers (such as Saint Juniper). These poetic stories shed much light upon the genesis and development of the following of Saint Francis. Indeed, some stories contained in the "Fioretti" can be found in much earlier works. Saint Francis preaching to the birds was described by Fra. Masseo, and written of by the Englishman, Roger of Wendover, in 1236.
The text was the inspiration for the Roberto Rossellini’s 1950 film "Francesco, giullare di Dio" (“Francis, God’s Jester”) which was co-written by Federico Fellini. It was also used as a source for the libretto of Olivier Messiaen’s opera Saint-François d'Assise.
External links
*The text, in Italian, is available in plain text and/or rtf format from the [http://www.liberliber.it/biblioteca/f/fioretti_di_san_francesco/index.htm Liber Liber: biblioteca e audioteca digitali ad accesso gratuito] site, which also provides a brief description of the text.
* [http://www.ccel.org/ccel/ugolino/flowers.html The text in English] at Christian Classics Ethereal Library
*CathEncy|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06078b.htm|title=Fioretti di San Francesco d'Assisi
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