Editing Francis of Assisi (section)

===Main writings===
[[File:Lucas wadding, francisci assisiatis opuscula, per balthasar moretus, anversa 1623 (coll. priv.).jpg|thumb|300px|''Francisci Assisiatis opuscula'', Antverpiae, apud Balthasarem Moretum, 1623]]
* ''Canticum Fratris Solis'' or ''Laudes Creaturarum''; [[Canticle of the Sun]], 1224
* ''Oratio ante Crucifixum'', Prayer before the Crucifix, 1205 (extant in the original Umbrian dialect as well as in a contemporary Latin translation)
* ''Regula non bullata'', the Earlier Rule, 1221
* ''Regula bullata'', the Later Rule, 1223
* ''Testament'', 1226
* ''Admonitions'', 1205 to 1209<ref>{{Cite web |title=Essay about St. Francis and the Franciscan Admonitions &#124; Bartleby |url=https://www.bartleby.com/essay/St-Francis-And-The-Franciscan-Admonitions-FKNT35YTC}}</ref>
For a complete list, see ''The Franciscan Experience''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Writings of St. Francis – Part 2 |url=http://www.christusrex.org/www1/ofm/fra/FRAwr02.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130128093924/http://www.christusrex.org/www1/ofm/fra/FRAwr02.html |archive-date=28 January 2013 |access-date=17 January 2013}}</ref>

Francis is considered the first Italian poet by some literary critics.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3uq0bObScHMC |title=The Cambridge History of Italian Literature |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |year=1999 |isbn=978-0-52166622-0 |editor-last=Brand |editor-first=Peter |chapter=2 – Poetry. Francis of Assisi (pp. 5ff.) |access-date=31 December 2015 |editor-last2=Pertile |editor-first2=Lino |editor-link2=Lino Pertile |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3uq0bObScHMC&pg=PA5}}</ref> He believed commoners should be able to pray to God in their own language and often wrote in [[Umbrian language|Umbrian]] rather than Latin.<ref name="Francis">{{Cite book |last=Chesterton |first=G.K. |url=http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/stf01010.htm |title=St. Francis |publisher=Image |year=1987 |isbn=0-385-02900-4 |pages=160 p |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130812043401/http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/stf01010.htm |archive-date=12 August 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

The anonymous 20th-century prayer "[[Prayer of Saint Francis|Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace]]" is widely attributed to Francis, but there is no evidence for it.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Renoux |first=Christian |title=La prière pour la paix attribuée à saint François: une énigme à résoudre |publisher=Editions franciscaines |year=2001 |isbn=2-85020-096-4 |location=Paris}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Renoux |first=Christian |title=The Origin of the Peace Prayer of St. Francis |url=http://www.franciscan-archive.org/franciscana/peace.html |access-date=9 August 2014}}</ref>
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