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The Medieval Church · c. 1370–1390
The Little Flowers of Saint Francis
I Fioretti di San Francesco
Anonymous
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What it is
Stories of Francis and his companions — the wolf of Gubbio, the sermon to the birds, the discourse on perfect joy in the freezing rain.
Why it lasted
The version of Francis the world actually knows, translated from a Latin compilation and read continuously for six centuries.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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