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by Vincent Moleta

This book was not meant for the specialist. It brings together and reconsiders some of the most familiar expressions of early Franciscan culture, while it merely touches on related questions such as the debate over poverty and the influence of Joachim of Fiore.

Moleta aimed to show St. Francis through the eyes of Italian writers and painters active during the century that followed his death, and to outline his place in the native culture that flowered in Italy from the mid-thirteenth to mid-fourteenth centuries.