Excerpt from The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi: Translated From the Italian While we neither desire nor intend to discuss the Opinions of scholars, a brief expression of our own views is permissible To our thinking, the question of the ancient source of the Floretum. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.