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As Nobel Prize winner Fo explains in his introduction, in the Middle Ages, jesters were both loved (by the multitudes) and reviled (by those in power who suffered their barbs), and St. Francis of Assisi took the appellation Holy Jester as a matter of pride. After Francis's death, the Vatican remade the rogue friar—famed for his gutsy, perform...Log In or Sign Up to Read More