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On the Road with Francis of Assisi offers a unique and lively
travelogue of parallel journeys: that of Francis of Assisi on his
way to sainthood in the thirteenth century, and that of author
Linda Bird Francke, who followed his path through the beauty of
central and coastal Italy-and even on to Egypt.
Francke tells the compelling story of Saint Francis through the
many places he visited. She and her husband, Harvey Loomis, used as
their guidebooks medieval texts, including the first official
biography of the saint, completed in 1229, just three years after
he died. Theirs was not a spiritual journey but one based on
admiration for a man whose legend continues to inspire and
fascinate millions around the world.
From Assisi-a small Umbrian town that now draws two million
visitors a year, making it second only to Rome as an Italian
pilgrimage destination-Saint Francis crisscrossed Italy for twenty
years. And so too does the author travel through the "green heart"
of Italy to such hill towns and cities as Siena, Bologna, Venice,
Gubbio, and Rome, and to the many mountaintop Franciscan
sanctuaries from La Verna and Le Celle di Cortona in Tuscany to the
Rieti Valley.
Along the way, Francke movingly depicts the many miracles Francis
performed and draws us into the splendid beauty of the landscape
that inspired the saint's love for nature and regard for all living
things. Unlike Francis, however, whose asceticism caused him to add
ashes to his food to deaden its earthly pleasure, Francke and her
husband indulge in the fabled Umbrian cuisine, from wild boar to
the region's famed black truffles, and the incomparable local
wines.
On the Road with Francis of Assisi embraces the spirit and person
of its legendary subject, and invites the reader to marvel at his
spiritual intensity and follow in his footsteps through the
timeless beauty of Italy.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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