Excerpt from Drift O' Dreams Giovanni was well and carefully raised, and at the early age of fourteen was taken into business by his father. After ten years of the pursuit of business, well mixed with the social pleasures of the day, there came a time of deep meditation, and after long pondering he abandoned his old friends and haunts, and returning all his belongings, even to his clothing, to his father, he embraced a life of rigid penance and utter poverty. His object was to lead a life as near as pos sible modeled after that of Christ, and by absolute renunciation of the world to attain evangelical perfection. He retired to a grotto near Assisi and gave himself up to penance and profound meditation on the sufferings of Christ, for a long time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.