Francesco, un’altra storia
by Frugoni Chiara
Thanks to the richness of the episodes it illustrates (more than twenty), the uniqueness of their choice – almost a challenge to the institution – and the complexity of its figurative discourse, the panel of the Bardi Chapel, preserved in Florence’s Santa Croce, portrays a Francis quite distant from the image we are used to seeing. It offers, in fact, a portrait of the saint in clear contrast with the more well-known one (of Bonaventure and Giotto) because it illustrates the more disturbing parts of Francis’ program, for example the peaceful conversion of the infidels, his disdain of wealth, his radical choice in favor of the poor and his helping the lepers.
- Publishing house Marietti
- Year of publication 2019
- Number of pages 88
- ISBN 9788821113062
- Foreign Rights ufficio.diritti@dehoniane.it
- Ebook no
- Price 14.00 €
Frugoni Chiara
Chiara Frugoni has taught Medieval History at the Universities of Pisa, Rome and Paris. A St. Francis and St. Clare scholar, she is author of essays translated in the main European languages, in Japanese and Korean.
