Tuesday, April 8, 2014

MONUMENT TO St. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

MONUMENTO A S. FRANCESCO D'ASSISI
1927 Giuseppe Tonnini (1875/1954) who had carved the winged lions on the steps of the Victorian
The five figures to the right of St. Francis (about 1181/1226) are the followers who accompanied him to the Lateran in Rome to meet Pope Innocent III of the Counts of Segni (1198/1216) for the recognition of the Rule, and, more generally, represent all of his spiritual disciples
On the front of the monument there is the inscription with the dedication. On the other sides there are the verses of the eleventh canto of the Paradiso of the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, which describes the figure of St. Francis

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