THE LADY POVERTY


“Sacrum Commercium Beati Franciscicum Domina Paupertate”


Giotto.

The Espousals of St. Francis to the Lady Poverty.


The frontispiece of this volume is reproducedby permission from a photograph by MessrsAlinari of Florence.


THE LADY POVERTY

A XIII. CENTURY ALLEGORY
TRANSLATED & EDITED BY
MONTGOMERY CARMICHAEL

WITH A CHAPTER ON THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCEOF EVANGELICAL POVERTY BY FATHER CUTHBERT O. S. F. G.

London
John Murray, Albemarle Street
1901


CONTENTS

Introduction
PAGE
(a)Editionsxvii
(b)Authorship and Datexxviii
(c)Translation and Scripture Referencesxlii
The Lady Poverty.
I.In Praise of Poverty3
II.How the Blessed Francis made diligent search for the Lady Poverty8
III.How two old men showed the Blessed Francis where he might find the Lady Poverty14
IV.Of the First Companions of the Blessed Francis20
V.How the Blessed Francis and his Companions found the Lady Poverty on the Mountain24
VI.The Blessed Francis and his Companions, exalting her virtues in divers ways, beseech the Lady Poverty to abide with them forever28
VII.The Answer of My Lady Poverty41
VIII....

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