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These pictures are illustrations for a book with the above title, published in 1919 by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. London. The book is an English translation by Thomas Okey, of "I Fioretti di San Francesco", which was an Italian translation by Antonio Cesari in 1822 of collected tales of St Francis of Assisi. The original stories were Latin texts produced 4 centuries earlier, about 150 years after the death of St Francis in 1226.
Burnand set up a studio in Assisi to work on this project, taking advantage of the setting and the Umbrian light, and using local people for models to create his trademark realism.
The chapter at St Mary of the Angels at Assisi
The Wolf of Gubbio after his conversion
St Francis tames the wild turtle doves
Friar Angel and the three brigands
Friar Bernard of Quintavalle
St Francis preaching at Bologna
Assisi
Friar Bentivoglia tends a leper
Mount La Verna
St Francis descending Mount La Verna with Friar Leo after the imprinting of the holy stigmas
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