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 ruse. His deeds were far more unpopular (with some) than ever this little allegory could have made him.

Père Edouard d'Alençon, with much ingenuity, seeks to credit Giovanni Parenti, St Francis' immediate successor as Minister General (1227-1233), with the authorship. He gives an instance tending to show that there was a tradition that a Minister General had written the work, and then he points to the similarity