Little Flowers of St. Francis

by Giovanni de' Marignolli, Ugolino Brunforte, anonymous

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 that 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 AD. Luke Wadding ascribes the text to Ugolino da Santa Maria, whose name occurs three times in the Actus. Most scholars now agree that the author was Ugolino Brunforte (c. 1262 – c.

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Genre:

Hagiography

Original language:

Italian