Francesca Galli

The Franciscan Servasanto da Faenza is the author of several sermons and moral treatises, composed in central Italy (and mostly in Florence) in the second half of the thirteenth century. Servasanto’s works deserve attention due to their distinctive features (e.g., the vast number of references to philosophical, classical and scientific sources), and also because they are conceived in a milieu that is particularly relevant to medieval literature and art...