Traditional attribution · Essential works
The Little Flowers of Saint Francis
Fioretti di san Francesco (de los Actus beati Francisci et sociorum eius)
Fifty-three chapters of stories about Francis and his companions (the wolf of Gubbio, the sermon to the birds, perfect joy, Brother Juniper, Brother Masseo) written with a freshness that has made them a classic of fourteenth-century Italian prose. They are the source of the saint's popular image, but not a record of his life: they should be read as memory and as literature.
Authorship note
Not a work by Francis. An anonymous Tuscan version (c. 1370–1390) of the Actus beati Francisci et sociorum eius, compiled in Latin around 1327–1337 in the Marches and attributed to Ugolino Boniscambi of Montegiorgio. They gather oral traditions of the friars of the Marches, close to the Spirituals; the Considerations on the Stigmata were added later.
Editions and translations
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English
The Little Flowers of Saint Francis
Dover Publications, 2003
ISBN 9780486431864
ISBN-10 048643186X.
The Little Flowers of St. Francis
Image Books (Doubleday), 1958
Translation: Raphael Brown
ISBN 0385075448
Incluye las Consideraciones sobre los estigmas y las vidas de fray Gil y fray Junípero.
Deutsch
Francis of Assisi
Die Blümlein des heiligen Franziskus von Assisi
The Conscious LibraryDie Blümlein des heiligen Franziskus von Assisi
Insel, 1976
Translation: Rudolf G. Binding
ISBN 3458017488
Italiano
Francis of Assisi
I fioretti di san Francesco
The Conscious LibraryI fioretti di san Francesco
Einaudi, 1998
ISBN 8806150375
A cargo de Guido Davico Bonino.
Español
Francis of Assisi
Florecillas de san Francisco de Asís
The Conscious LibraryFlorecillas de san Francisco de Asís
Claretiana, 1999
ISBN 9789505123223
Edición argentina.
Las florecillas de san Francisco
San Pablo, 2007
Translation: Isaac Vázquez
ISBN 9788428532785
Other works by Francis of Assisi
- Canticle of the Creatures (Canticle of Brother Sun) · 1225
- Admonitions · 1220
- Testament · 1226
- Earlier Rule (Regula non bullata, 1221) · 1221
- Later Rule (Regula bullata, 1223) · 1223
- Rule for Hermitages · 1218
- Earlier Exhortation to the Brothers and Sisters of Penance (First Letter to the Faithful) · 1215
- Later Admonition and Exhortation to the Brothers and Sisters of Penance (Second Letter to the Faithful) · 1220
- Exhortation to the Clergy (Letter to the Clergy) · 1220
- Letters to the Custodians (first and second) · 1220
- Letter to the Rulers of the Peoples · 1220
- Letter to the Entire Order · 1225
- Letter to a Minister · 1221
- Letter to Brother Anthony of Padua · 1223
- Letter to Brother Leo · 1220
- The Praises of God and the Blessing for Brother Leo (Chartula) · 1224
- The Praises to Be Said at All the Hours · 1220
- Exhortation to the Praise of God · 1220
- The Office of the Passion · 1220
- The Prayer before the Crucifix · 1206
- A Salutation of the Blessed Virgin Mary · 1220
- A Salutation of the Virtues · 1220
- A Prayer Inspired by the Our Father · 1215
- Form of Life and Last Will for Saint Clare · 1212
- The Canticle of Exhortation to the Poor Ladies ('Audite, poverelle') · 1225
- The Testament Written in Siena · 1226
- Fragments of Another Rule · 1222
- True and Perfect Joy · 1220
- Blessing for Brother Bernard · 1226
- The Prayer 'Absorbeat' · 1305
- Letter to Lady Jacoba · 1226
- Peace Prayer ('Lord, make me an instrument of your peace') · 1912
- Thomas of Celano, The Life of Saint Francis (First Life) · 1229
- Thomas of Celano, The Shorter Life of Saint Francis (Vita brevior) · 1235
- Thomas of Celano, The Remembrance of the Desire of a Soul (Second Life) · 1247
- Thomas of Celano, The Treatise on the Miracles · 1252
- Julian of Speyer, The Life of Saint Francis · 1234
- The Anonymous of Perugia (The Beginning of the Order) · 1241
- The Legend of the Three Companions · 1246
- The Assisi Compilation · 1246
- Bonaventure, The Major Legend of Saint Francis · 1263
- The Mirror of Perfection · 1318
- Complete Writings (collected editions) · 1904
Sources
- Vauchez, André. François d'Assise. Entre histoire et mémoire. París: Fayard, 2009. Trad. ingl.: Francis of Assisi. The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Saint. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012.
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