The story of Francis, saint of Assisi, is one of enduring beauty. Here is a new edition of the story, a version that has become a classic in its time. 

As a child in the Italian village of Assisi, Francis Bernadone had splendid clothes and much money to spend. His friends were from the greatest and richest families, and Francis was the merriest of them all. He loved to sing the songs of the wandering troubadours and dreamed of someday becoming a knight. 

A few years later his dreams had completely changed. Suddenly aware of the misery and suffering in the world, he had given away his warm cloak and his purse of coins and decided to devote his life to helping the poor. When his father heard of his plans, he disowned him. And his friends laughed.

Soon, however, new friends, one by one, came to Francis, asking to join him, to live as he lived, in a coarse, dusty robe, barefooted and bareheaded. They slept under the open sky and called themselves "The Little Poor Men of God."

God's Troubadour was written after the author visited Assisi and saw the famous Giotto frescoes on the walls of the Assisi church. The beautiful illustrations in this edition are reproductions of these same frescoes. 

From the dust jacket of the third edition