From St. Francis to Dante
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From St. Francis to Dante

Translations from the Chronicle of the Franciscan Salimbene, 1221-1288

  1. 488 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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From St. Francis to Dante

Translations from the Chronicle of the Franciscan Salimbene, 1221-1288

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1, 100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Introduction
  3. Preface to First Edition
  4. Preface to Second Edition
  5. Chapter I. The Autobiography of Brother Salimbene
  6. Chapter II. Parentage and Boyhood
  7. Chapter III. The Great Alleluia
  8. Chapter IV. Conversion
  9. Chapter V. A Wicked World
  10. Chapter VI. Cloister Life
  11. Chapter VII. Frate Elia
  12. Chapter VIII. The Bitter Cry of a Subject Friar
  13. Chapter IX. Convent Friendships
  14. Chapter Χ. The Siege of Parma
  15. Chapter XI. The Guelfs Victorious
  16. Chapter XII. Wanderjähre
  17. Chapter XIII. Abbot Joachim’s Theory of Development
  18. Chapter XIV. Further Wanderings
  19. Chapter XV. A Bishop’s Conscience
  20. Chapter XVI. Settling Down
  21. Chapter XVII. Taking in Sail
  22. Chapter XVIII. Fresh Storms227
  23. Chapter XIX. Last Days
  24. Chapter XX. The Princes of the World
  25. Chapter XXI. Neither Fish nor Flesh
  26. Chapter XXII. The Princes of the Church
  27. Chapter XXIII. Clergy and People
  28. Chapter XXIV. Faith
  29. Chapter XXV. Believing and Trembling
  30. Chapter XXVI. The Salt and its Savour
  31. Chapter XXVII. Conclusion
  32. Appendices
  33. Index