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Send us Fan Mail A merchant's son. A born performer. A boy who wanted the whole town to say his name. Francesco di Bernardone had everything money could buy in the hill town of Assisi — fine cloth, French songs, a crowd that gathered wherever he did. What he wanted was glory. A knight's glory. The kind sung about in taverns a hundred years later. He rode out to war to get it. He came home in chains instead. What followed was a year in a prison cell, a vision he couldn't shake, and a lepe...
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