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The Sacred Exchange between St. Francis and Lady Poverty (Sacrum commercium)

Anonymous Franciscan (13th century)

This book is in Latin.

The Sacred Exchange between Blessed Francis and Lady Poverty (1227), the allegory in which Francis and his friars go looking for Poverty and celebrate their wedding with her; prologue and thirty-two chapters, in Latin. The English of Montgomery Carmichael (The Lady Poverty, 1901) is not imported here.

Contents

Source: Prologue and numbered chapters. Latin only.