id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt db78tb12t0c Giovanni Vedovotto The Poet, the Saint, and the Friars: Dante, Francis, and Franciscanism 2022 .txt text/plain 247 10 52 On the contrary, most Franciscans of Dante's time are not the rightful heirs of Francis, as they either are hypocrites who do not really care about renunciation, or they believe that poverty is an end in itself without understanding the spiritual principle of perfect renunciation which lies behind poverty. The key notion in what poverty means for Dante is detachment, or renunciation, which is the opposite of greed, the most terrible sin in Dante's view. cache/db78tb12t0c.txt txt/db78tb12t0c.txt