PROPOSITUM - Vol. 16 - Nr. 1 - January 2013 - IFC-TOR

christo profecturus / formam quam tradit fratibus / (sit quisque
secuturus).” “(...) Francis had renewed the law of the Gospel
and for all he paves the way of salvation in heaven, while he
keeps poverty and the chastity of angels by obeying permits
him to reach the divine trinity; adorned with these virtues, he
ascends destined to rule, full of these fruits he proceeds
fearlessly with the angels of God and Christ; it will benefit each
to follow the rule that he gave to the brothers.”
6. Bonaventura da Bagnoregio, Legenda maior, prologus I, 2, 3.
7. Bollati, Gloriosus Franciscus cit., pp. 97-98.
8. Bonaventura da Bagnoregio, Legenda maior, prologus I, 6.
9. Bollati, Gloriosus Franciscus cit., p. 103.
10. Bonaventura da Bagnoregio, Legenda maior, prologus I, 5.
11. Bollati, Gloriosus Franciscus cit., p. 125.
12. Bollati, Gloriosus Franciscus cit., pp. 115, 127.
13. Henry Thode, Francesco d’Assisi e le origini dell’arte del
Rinascimento in Italia, Donzelli, Roma 2003, p. 421;
Bonaventura da Bagnoregio, Legenda maior, opusculum III, I,
8-9.
14. Bonaventura da Bagnoregio, Legenda maior, prologus, II,
3.
15. The link between the stigmata and the approval of the Rule
is shown in Legenda maior, IV, 9-10.
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