About the book: 1991 / The book was written in 1923. Translated from the edition of Chesterton G. K. St. Francis of Assisi. NY, 1957. Russian translation completed in the spring of 1963. Published by YMCA-Press in the Bulletin of the RSHD (1975), with omissions and typos, since it was printed from a samizdat manuscript. The published text was verified and prepared for printing in 1988, first published in Russian in the journal “Problems of Philosophy” No. 1, 1989. Translation by N. L. Trauberg. Comments by T. V. Vikhor, L. B. Summ.