Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... vj About One Way In Which Christians Love One Another ES," I said, "that's a very good story, Toto. And now I want to know where you learned it." "Well, sir," he replied, "that history was told to me by Fra Leone of the Cappuccini. Not that I wish you to think the Cappuccini and Franciscans to be the same, --oh, not at all. But, of course, you know better than that; and it is like their impertinence of bronze to pretend that they are; as they do; for the Cappuccini were not heard of even for hundreds of years after Sanfrancesco had founded his Religion. And the reason why they came to be made, was simply on account of the vain man Matteo Something-or-other-of-Low, who gave more thought to his clothes than to the good of his soul, considering that the sleeves which were good enough for Sanfrancesco, and the round tippet which that most sweet god wore, did not suit his style of beauty; wherefore he made himself a brown habit instead of a grey one, with plain sleeves to show the shape of his arms, and no pockets in them, and a tippet not round, but pointed like the piece of flesh which there is between my shoulders. And then, because there are always plenty of men ready to run after something new, he got together so many followers wishing to dress themselves like him, that Papa de' Medicj preferred to give them permission to have their own way, rather than cause them to become rebels against our Holy Mother the Church, by making it difficult for them to be obedient. You see the matter had really no importance which was worth a schism." I said that I knew all about that, but that I did n't believe that religious men, whether they were Franciscans, or sham ones like the Cappuccini, or even Jesuits, would show such jealousy and envy one of...
