The Road to DamiettaHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004 M10 25 - 318 pages The Newbury Award-winning author delivers “what may be his finest novel” in this young adult narrative of Saint Francis of Assisi and the Fifth Crusade (Publishers Weekly). Rich in the atmosphere of thirteenth-century Italy, The Road to Damietta offers a fascinating new perspective on the man who became Saint Francis of Assisi: the guileless, joyous man who praised the oneness of nature and sought to bring the world into harmony. Thirteen-year-old Ricca di Montanaro, who secretly loves the young Francis, watches in awe as he disavows his rich father and declares himself a servant of Christ. Following him on his journey, Ricca recounts Francis’s attempt to bring peace amidst the bloodshed of the Fifth Crusade. “Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace,” he said. “Where there is hatred, let me sow love, where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy.” And so he set off on the road to Damietta… |
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... never to their elders, and when they talk to each other, they must be what we from Granada call sensitivo, which is theopposite ofmacho, which was stylish during the war, and which means he-goat or a spur, a square anvil, a hammer, and ...
... never to their elders, and when they talk to each other, they must be what we from Granada call sensitivo, which is theopposite ofmacho, which was stylish during the war, and which means he-goat or a spur, a square anvil, a hammer, and ...
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... never seeing her again. "Besides, Father is in a hurry. He's been hurrying for a week." The count of Monte Verde glanced at my father, who was prompt to say that he was not in a hurry and that his time belonged to the count. Like all ...
... never seeing her again. "Besides, Father is in a hurry. He's been hurrying for a week." The count of Monte Verde glanced at my father, who was prompt to say that he was not in a hurry and that his time belonged to the count. Like all ...
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... never moved, but both men were wrong about its shape. It was the heart of the universe, and everything else—the sun and moon and stars— moved around it in an obedient procession, like slaves. Besides, the earth was most certainly flat ...
... never moved, but both men were wrong about its shape. It was the heart of the universe, and everything else—the sun and moon and stars— moved around it in an obedient procession, like slaves. Besides, the earth was most certainly flat ...
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... never touch the ground, with whom every girl in Assisi thinks she's in love. And now it's you that joins the many. You've never met Bernardone. Never so much as spoken a word to him and yet you claim to be in love. What nonsense!" "Must ...
... never touch the ground, with whom every girl in Assisi thinks she's in love. And now it's you that joins the many. You've never met Bernardone. Never so much as spoken a word to him and yet you claim to be in love. What nonsense!" "Must ...
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... never had gone to thefesta, but on this occasion Clare di Scifi and some of the other girls who lived in Piazza San Rufino banded together against our parents and wrung from them permission to attend the Mass, provided we were ...
... never had gone to thefesta, but on this occasion Clare di Scifi and some of the other girls who lived in Piazza San Rufino banded together against our parents and wrung from them permission to attend the Mass, provided we were ...
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