François and the birds

CHRONIC. To stop in front of a work that seizes you... The aesthetic experience is powerful, as experienced in front of one of the scenes of Giotto's fresco in Assisi the writer Metin Arditi. Who learned about the choice of his first name by FrançoisWhy Jorge Bergolio took Francis' name as the pope? The question refers me to my first visit to the Basilica di San Francesco, in Assisi. A constraint of schedule had forced me to return to it one mor…