With Gloriosus Franciscus, Anonima Frottolisti presents a cross-section of music relevant to the Franciscan ideal from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries. The sequence of selected pieces reveals both the learned side of this music and its closeness to 'folk' traditions during the period straddling the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, as a symbolic homage to the city where Anonima Frottolisti was born (Assisi): “From this slope, where it most breaks its steepness, a sun rose on the world, as this does sometimes from the Ganges; therefore let him who makes mention of that place not say Ascesi, for he would say too little, but Orient, if he would name it rightly...” (Dante Alighieri - Divina Commedia: Paradiso, Canto XI).

Contents:
1. Bulla eloganti. 28 September 1230
2. Kyrie: Summe rex sempiterne [Cantorino di Reims]
3. Verbum bonum et suave [Cantorino di Reims]
4. In superna civitate de Franciscii novitate [Cantorino di Reims]
5. Sequentia de beato Franciscu [Tommaso da Celano]
6. Gaude Dei genetrix [Cantorino di Reims]
7. Sicut pratum picturatum [Cantorino di Reims]
8. Franciscus ut in pubblicum [Antifonario Fondo Antico]
9. Ave Virgo virginum [Anonimo, strumentale]
10. Sia laudato San Francesco [Laudario di Cortona]
11. Ceciderunt in preclaris [Cantorino di Reims, strumentale]
12. Laudar vollio per amore [Laudario di Cortona]
13. O Francisce pater pie [Anonimo]
14. Già per gran nobeltà triunpho e fama [Nicholaus Zacharie]
15. Introitus missae sancti Francisci: gaudeamus omnes in domino
16. Graudale: Os justi [Guillaume Du Fay]
17. O patriarcha pauperum, Francisce [Anonimo]
18. [Dalla] Leggenda dei tre compagni [Anonimo]
19. O San Francesco, dolce padre mio [Anonimo]
20. Laudiam con gran fervore [Anonimo]
21. Testamento di San Francesco [Anonimo]
22. Plaude turba paupercula [Giuliano da Spira]