SAN FRANCIS AND THE MOSTACCIOLI
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Saint Francis (1182-1226) Francesco was born in Assisi in the winter of 1182 to one of the city’s wealthiest families. His childhood passed peacefully. He was able to study Latin, the vernacular, the Provençal, and music; his notes, together with his poems, were always appreciated in the city’s festivals.
His father, a spice and cloth merchant, eager to involve him in the family business, educated him for this art. But the episode that began to transform Francesco’s life happened to him at the age of twenty, when captured while participating in the war between Assisi and Perugia.