Saint Francis of Assisi, a Multifaceted Figure

St. Francis is one of the most famous saints of the Catholic Church, but also one of the most globally known religious figures. He has been interpreted in different ways throughout history, both from a political and ecclesiological point of view but also, consequently, from an iconographical and cultural one. Through his depictions and hagiographies - passing through Annibale Carracci's 16th-century painting St. Francis - the interpretative gaps will be highlighted up to the current one, St. Francis as the patron saint of ecologists.