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Author Bartoli, Marco, author

Title Francis' nudity : historical reflection on the stripping of the poor man of Assisi / by Marco Bartoli ; translation by Gilbeerto Cavazos-González, OFM
Published [St. Bonaventure, N.Y.] : Franciscan Institute Publications, St. Bonaventure University, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource (86 pages)
Contents Stripping as a key for reading Francis' life -- Stripping before the Bishop of Assisi -- The stripping as interpreted by the sources
Summary A young man arrives in the public square to confront his father and his city for its violence and greed. He wants off the social grid. In a dramatic gesture of renunciation, he takes off all his clothes and hands them back to his father and walks away, in search of a new identity and purpose with his God. In this insightful and inspiring book, Bartoli explores the meaning of Francis' gestures of nudity from his moment of conversion to his ritual of death. They are a window into a life of hope and suffering, loss and peace, a man who uses his nudity to tell his struggle for acceptance by the God that he loves so well-- Provided by publisher
Notes Translated from Italian
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource ; title from PDF title page (EBSCO ; viewed August 23, 2023)
Subject Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226.
SUBJECT Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226 fast
Subject Nudity -- Religious aspects.
Poor -- History -- To 1500
Poverty -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Nudity -- Religious aspects
Poor
Poverty -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Cavazos-González, Gilberto, 1957- translator
ISBN 9781576594483
1576594483