Marco Bartoli, Un canto all’amore di Dio – gli ultimi anni di Francesco d’Assisi (Edizioni Biblioteca Francescana, 2025).
"The final moments of a life, of every life, are precious for understanding its meaning. But in Francis' case, it is as if the final moments, those of his passing, had been prepared for several months, even years. They were years of suffering: Francis was ill and became increasingly weaker; yet they were also the years in which the poor man of Assisi achieved great and important innovations, beginning with his letters and ending with the Canticle of Brother Sun. In these pages, we have attempted to follow the development of events in Francis's final years in order to understand how his entire life, even in the midst of suffering, became a song of praise to the Lord. Only in this way can we attempt to understand how Francis was able to call even death his sister.
Marco Bartoli, Associate Professor of Medieval History at LUMSA in Rome, disciple of Raoul Manselli, is a specialist in the history of the last centuries of the Western Middle Ages, with a particular interest in Clare and Francis of Assisi. With a preface by Cardinal Matteo M. Zuppi."
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