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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... thought about Francis Bernardone. I wondered about him and the leper. Why had he covered his face and fled in terror? He had fought in the war, been wounded and imprisoned. He had run with the bulls. Yet the mere sight of the leper had ...
... thought about Francis Bernardone. I wondered about him and the leper. Why had he covered his face and fled in terror? He had fought in the war, been wounded and imprisoned. He had run with the bulls. Yet the mere sight of the leper had ...
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... thought it pointless for females of my age or of any age, he didn't object to my spending an hour now and again gazing at the stars. The Arabian seer who made the chart had noted that for the past three centuries a fiery apparition had ...
... thought it pointless for females of my age or of any age, he didn't object to my spending an hour now and again gazing at the stars. The Arabian seer who made the chart had noted that for the past three centuries a fiery apparition had ...
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... thought that it was shaped like a pear, and Raul thought that it was more like a wheel, the various countries, islands,, and oceans being the spokes in the wheel. Everyone knew the earth never moved, but both men were wrong about its ...
... thought that it was shaped like a pear, and Raul thought that it was more like a wheel, the various countries, islands,, and oceans being the spokes in the wheel. Everyone knew the earth never moved, but both men were wrong about its ...
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... and brother Rinaldo among them. (Mother, who thought that dancing was a pagan sin, had left the square.) As I watched Francis Bernardone flashing around, the wind whipping his cloak, revealing stripes of green and yellow, as n.
... and brother Rinaldo among them. (Mother, who thought that dancing was a pagan sin, had left the square.) As I watched Francis Bernardone flashing around, the wind whipping his cloak, revealing stripes of green and yellow, as n.
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... . I closed the door tight and flung myself on the bed and stopped my ears with pillows against the sound of the brazen drums and the wild songs of the tripudianti. (ffor weekt^Jor weeks, 3" closed my. mind ta everu- thought 18.
... . I closed the door tight and flung myself on the bed and stopped my ears with pillows against the sound of the brazen drums and the wild songs of the tripudianti. (ffor weekt^Jor weeks, 3" closed my. mind ta everu- thought 18.
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