Laudato Sie Exhibition in Assisi is Featured on Rai3 in Italy
RaiTre, a prominent Italian network recently featured the Laudato Sie exhibition as part of the “Cammino series,” a program hosted by the Franciscan friar Padre Enzo Fortunato and journalist Giulia Nannini,. The series highlights cultural and historical pilgrimage routes to educates viewers on their significance. The segment featuring Laudato Sie was directed by Marco Capasso, the designer who created the immersive multimedia elements in the Laudato Sie exhibit itself.
Fra Carlo Bottero, a curator of the Laudato Sie exhibition and director of the Sacred Convent Library in Assisi, is featured in the segment and speaks about the exhibition’s rare manuscripts. Laudato Sie features the oldest manuscript of Composizione del cantico de Frateore, also known as The Canticle of the Creatures, the book that became Saint Francis of Assisiβs cultural legacy and inspired a Franciscan cultural tradition. This text is the first literary work in the Italian vernacular language and is a religious hymn written by Saint Francis of Assisi in the early thirteenth century.
The text is famous for its expressions of respect, admiration, and gratitude for nature, which established a legacy of harmony with nature and scientific curiosity still practiced by Franciscans. The 93 ancient manuscripts and books displayed in this exhibition show the medieval spirituality and curiosity of the Franciscan Order and their contributions to medieval scientific thought, research, and recording of knowledge.
This exhibit located in the Papal Hall of the Sacred Convent of San Francesco in Assisi, can be visited every Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00β6:00 with the last entry at 5:00pm until October 12, 2025 and can be easily traveled to from Rome by train.
– Lauren Carroll
