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Life of St. Francis of Assisi

CHAPTER X
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_Fior._; 22.
[21] 2 Cel., 2, 16; _Conform._, 148a, 1, 183b, 2.Cf.the story of the sheep of Portiuncula: Bon., 111.
[22] Village in the valley of Rieti, two hours' walk from that town, on the road to Terni.
[23] 1 Cel., 60; Bon., 113.
[24] 1 Cel., 61; Bon., 114.
[25] 2 Cel., 3, 54; Bon., 109; 2 Cel., 3; 103 ff.; Bon., 116 ff.; Bon., 110; 1 Cel., 61; Bon., 114, 113, 115; 1 Cel., 79; _Fior._, 13, etc.
[26] 2 Cel., 3, 101 ff.; Bon., 123.
[27] 2 Cel., 3, 59; 1 Cel., 80 and 81.
[28] 2 Cel., 3, 101; _Spec._, 136a; 1 Cel., 81.
[29] This is the scene in his life most often reproduced by the predecessors of Giotto.

The unknown artist who (before 1236) decorated the nave of the Lower Church of Assisi gives five frescos to the history of Jesus and five to the life of St.
Francis.

Upon the latter he represents: 1, the renunciation of the paternal inheritance; 2, Francis upholding the Lateran church; 3, the sermon to the birds; 4, the stigmata; 5, the funeral.

This work, unhappily very badly lighted, and about half of it destroyed at the time of the construction of the chapels of the nave, ought to be engraved before it completely disappears.

The history of art in the time of Giunta Pisano is still too much enveloped in obscurity for us to neglect such a source of information.


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