Laudes Creaturarum:
A Polyphony
By Essay Issue 96
IN ASSISI, THE SKY vaults clouded and serene against the foothills. * Pietro, known as Francesco, devoted brother of his order, put quill to thirteenth-century parchment and began to praise. His inspiration was Psalm 148, whose Hebrew exhortations spur the sun and moon, the stars and highest heavens, tempests and mountains and wingèd birds…
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