San Francesco, tra Cimabue e Perugino Nel Giubileo con il Cantico delle Creature

The year 2025 brings a double event, involving art and history. Pope Francis has proclaimed the Jubilee and at the same time this is the eighth centenary of the Canticle of the Creatures, composed by St. Francis in 1225. The volume, linked to an important exhibition hosted in the rooms of the The Senate Library Giovanni Spadolini from 12 December 2024 to 2 March 2025, is intended to celebrate both events, extraordinarily entwined in the pontificate of Pope Bergoglio, whose encyclical Laudato si’ in 2015 was inspired by St. Francis’s composition, one of the earliest poetic texts written in the vernacular.

Thanks to the works of great masters such as Perugino, masterpieces such as Cimabue’s portrait of St. Francis and relics such as the Carthula of Assisi, all from Umbria, and in particular from the National Gallery of Umbria, proposes a journey between art and faith, to rediscover the iconography of the Saint, also enhanced by splendid reproductions in detail.