Fra Giocondo
Fra Giocondo
Giovanni Giocondo, Order of Friars Minor,was an Italian friar, architect, antiquary, archaeologist, and classical scholar...
esteem flee greet prayer profound quite sends shadows
I greet you. Not quite as the world sends greetings, but with profound esteem and with the prayer that for you now and forever, the day breaks, and the shadows flee away.
beneath cast covering generous gifts heavy judging life living remove ugly woven
Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by the covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love, by wisdom, with power.
beauty beneath covering earth full life meaning
Life is so full of meaning and purpose, so full of beauty - beneath its covering - that you will find earth but cloaks your heaven.