A classic work of Christian literature commissioned by the Franciscan Order in the year 1250, The Life of St. Francis by St. Bonaventure the Tuscan scholastic theologian and the greatest Franciscan mystic after St. Francis himself is both a biography and an enlightening and inspiring spiritual treatise. A noteworthy addition to the Harper Collins Spiritual Classics series with a foreword by Donna Tartt, author of The Little Friend and The Secret History, this new edition of Bonaventure s The Life of St. Francis reflects profoundly on the life of the virtues which Francis presented as the ideal of Gospel perfection.
