The Little Flowers of Saint Francis [of Assisi]

London and Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1924. Reissue. Full-Leather. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Appears to be rebound. Front joint splitting, rear joint beginning to split, boards rubbed, ink name and date on front flyleaf. 1924 Full-Leather. xiii, [1], 320 pp. Full leather, gilt titles and decorations, gilt and blue decorated endpapers. Translated into English from the original Italian by T.W. Arnold. The Little Flowers of St. Francis (Italian: Fioretti di San Francesco) is a florilegium (excerpts of his body of work), divided into 53 short chapters, on the life of Saint Francis of Assisi that was composed at the end of the 14th century. The anonymous Italian text, almost certainly by a Tuscan author, is a version of the Latin Actus beati Francisci et sociorum eius, of which the earliest extant manuscript is one of 1390 AD. Luke Wadding ascribes the text to Father Ugolino da Santa Maria, whose name occurs three times in the Actus. Most scholars are now agreed that the author was Ugolino Brunforte (c. 1262 - c. 1348).