Out on His Shield

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan K. Rode
Keyword(s):  
Left Half ◽  
Francis Of Assisi

Curtiz separated from Bess before leaving for Italy to direct Francis of Assisi (1961). The Encino ranch was sold, and Curtiz continued keeping company with Ann Stuart, aka Anitra Stevens. Francis of Assisi was highlighted by a memorable Curtiz meltdown that indicated he might be becoming senile.He was assigned to direct The Commancheros (1962), starring John Wayne, at Fox.While they were on location in Utah, Curtiz’s behavior became erratic and he was physically debilitated. He eventually fell, injuring his leg, and Wayne directedmore than half of the picture. It was discovered that Curtiz was riddled with cancer and had only months to live. Bess and his doctor had known he’d had cancer since his 1958 appendectomy but had kept it from him so he could continue working.Curtiz died on April 10, 1962, at seventy-five. His will left half his estate to Ann Stuart, including land and his movie residuals. He also reneged on a previously executed support agreement for his daughter by Jill Gerrard (who sued Curtiz’s estate and won) and left nothing to any of his children other than Kitty. The chapter concludes by summarizing his life and those of his key intimates, noting that Curtiz’s films remain a rich legacy.

Thoughts on Francis of Assisi

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Latifah Troncelliti
Keyword(s):  
Francis Of Assisi

Domina Paupertas: the praise of voluntary poverty by St. Francis of Assisi and its reflection in late medieval Spanish painting

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
José María Salvador González
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Large Set ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Perfect Model ◽  
Material Goods ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
Francis Of Assisi

As is well known, St. Francis of Assisi heroically embraced evangelical poverty, renouncing material goods and living in abject poverty, in imitation of Jesus Christ. Furthermore, through his writings and oral testimonies collected by his disciples, the saint fervently urged Christians to live to some degree voluntary poverty , of which Christ was the perfect model. By basing this reading on some Poverello’s quotations, this paper intends to show the potential impact that these exhortations from San Francisco to poverty may have had in the late medieval Spanish painting, in some iconographic themes so significantly Franciscan as the Nativity and the Passion of the Redeemer. Through the analysis of a large set of paintings representing both issues, we will attempt to put into light if the teachings of St. Francis on evangelical poverty are reflected somehow in Spanish painting of the late Middle Ages.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Mason
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Church Fathers ◽  
Communal Experience ◽  
In Christ ◽  
The Church ◽  
Francis Of Assisi

This chapter locates Rossetti in the context of the book’s ecotheological argument, which traces an ecological love command in her writing through her engagement with Tractarianism, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, the Church Fathers, and Francis of Assisi. It establishes her Anglo-Catholic imagining of the cosmos as a fabric of participation and communal experience embodied in Christ. The first section reads Rossetti in the context of current Victorian ecocriticism, which underplays the role of Christianity in the development of nineteenth-century environmentalism. The next sections question critical readings of Rossetti as a reclusive thinker and argue instead for an educated and politicized Christian for whom indifference to the spiritual is complicit with an environmental crisis in which the weak and vulnerable suffer most. This introduction also refers to the wider field of Rossetti studies and introduces her reading of grace and apocalypse as a major contribution to the intradiscipline of Christianity and ecology.

Pope Francis and Francis of Assisi: Men of Gesture

2020 ◽  
Vol 78 (1) ◽  
pp. 275-288
Author(s):  
Willem Marie Speelman
Keyword(s):  
Pope Francis ◽  
Francis Of Assisi

The Conversion of St. Francis of Assisi

Theology ◽  
1925 ◽  
Vol 11 (64) ◽  
pp. 214-223
Author(s):  
G. J. Inglis
Keyword(s):  
Francis Of Assisi
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