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Danilo Dolci speaks of Sicily as "the world of the condemned." He is, of course, not the first reformer to set a special value on the outlawed. In St. Francis' Fioretti, you see the same processions of criminals, lepers, the exiled and the tortured, that Dolci writes of in his angry indictments of the island's society. For St. Francis, these were the beloved of God, chosen by him to atone for the greed and spiritual bankruptcy of their fellows. But for Dolci, the outcasts of Sicily are simply a monument to men's obliviousness of one another...
Flowers of St. Francis (Angelo-Rizzoli; Joseph Burstyn) weaves some episodes from the life of Francis of Assisi into a rich cinematic garland. As adapted from the 14th century Fioretti di Francesco d'Assisi by Director & Co-Author Roberto Rossellini, the film is no solemn picture of a dead and embalmed saint, but a warmly human portrait of a humble man who rejected the world for a life of poverty and piety...
...Fioretti, bartender at Manhattan's Stork Club, got a tip from a steady customer-a 1948 Cadillac. The customer was an out-of-town auto dealer, and Tom had always been able to fix him up with a hotel room whenever he came to town...
...enter into the religious spirit of the time the "Fioretti di San Francesco," and the "Life of St. Francis," by St. Bonaventura, should be read; and for the religious dogma and moral philosophy of the period, the "Summa Theologica" of St. Thomas Aquinas is indispensable...
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