The Medieval Church · c. 1370–1390
The Little Flowers of Saint Francis
I Fioretti di San Francesco
Anonymous
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
This work is in the public domain and can be read in full, free, at the archives below. The Library catalogues it; it does not host the text.
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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