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Il Principe Mendicante: Photographic Tribute
to St.
Francis Caracciolo
[In English & Italian]
Edited By Luigi Spina and Cesare de Seta
October 2007
Mondadori Electa, Milan, Italy
Distributed By Trans-Atlantic Publications
9788837056902
131 Pages, Illustrated, 9 3/4 x 12"
$57.50 Hardcover
The
book, produced at the Jubilee Caracciolino, intends to rely on the theme
of travel between history, art, landscape and faith to retrace the places
where St. Francis Caracciolo (1563-1608), founder of
the Clerics Regular Minor (Caracciolini fathers) lived and worked and
left all his possessions, his ambitions and his social position to devote
himself entirely to the service of God. Using
language as an elective black and white and with the help of archival material
and evidence, the photographer Luigi Spina reconstructs the path of holiness
between Naples and Rome. Finally
leaving the major urban areas leads the reader on a journey into the landscape
at Villa Santa Maria (CH), place of birth of the saint, and Agnone (IS)
his place of death.
