The Second Life of St. Francis (Vita secunda)
Thomas of Celano’s Second Life of St. Francis, the Memorial in the Desire of the Soul (1246-1247), written for the minister general Crescentius of Jesi from the testimony of Francis’s companions: a prologue and two books, the second a topical anthology of his virtues and sayings. Latin, with paragraph and verse numbers; the source’s rubrics stand as headings. The English is A. G. Ferrers Howell's (1908).
Contents
Source: Prologue, first book (19 chapters) and second book. The sub-rubrics of the second book (heading-only entries in the source) stand as ## headings at the top of the next chapter. English (Howell 1908) is OCR only, not imported. · Archive.org OCR cleaned by script, not proofread: running heads dropped, Howell's few footnotes kept, his section numbers as inert bold. The drop capital of each chapter's first word, garbled in every scan, is restored by a table read off the scans and checked against the Latin. Howell's group headings (Of Poverty, Of Humility ...) stand at the head of the chapter they introduce, as in the Latin.