Article: Salvation: Scenes from the Life of St. Francis.(Book Review)

By Valerie Martin. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. xii + 268 pp. $24.00 cloth.

The flurry of publications on Francis of Assisi continues unabated. At the last known count, some forty years ago, there were some 575 works in four languages. Among those of recent vintage: Christian Bobin, The Secret of Francis of Assisi: A Meditation, trans, by Michael H. Kohn (Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1997), unheralded in its English translation, but an international best seller under its quite different and suggestive French title, Le Tres-Bas; Chiara Frugoni, Francis of Assisi (New York: Continuum, 1998), brings to bear the best of flourishing Italian scholarship ...

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