The Little Flowers of St. Francis
The fifty-three "little flowers": Francis, his first companions, Clare and Anthony, the wolf of Gubbio, perfect joy and the friars of the March of Ancona. Compiled in the fourteenth century by a friar of the March from the older Latin Actus beati Francisci. The Italian is Antonio Cesari's text (Livorno 1860); the English is the first English translation (Lady Georgiana Fullerton, 1864) as revised by Dom Roger Hudleston (1926), which follows the same fifty-three chapters. The Considerations on the Stigmata and the lives of Brother Juniper and Brother Giles are not included.
Contents
Source: All 53 chapters with their chapter titles. Page markers were removed and the lines they split rejoined; a few stray diacritics from the transcription (about thirty characters such as ņ, ṭ, ė, į) were reduced to the plain letter, and split drop-cap initials were closed. Paragraph breaks are those of the transcription (most chapters are a single block). · Part One, chapters I-LIII, which pair one for one with the Italian chapters. Arthur Livingston's 1965 introduction (copyright), the Considerations on the Stigmata, and the lives of Brother Juniper and Brother Giles and the Sayings of Giles in the same file are not imported. Chapter titles were converted from capitals to sentence case.