Abstract

The paper deals with a well-known issue of the controversy about the interpretation of the Franciscan Rule between the end of the XIII century and the beginning of the XIV: the claim that the Franciscan Rule is identical with the Gospel. Focussing in particular on Commentaries on the Rule, the author tries to show that such a claim was not only controversial (as scholarship has pointed out already long time ago), but also allowed for different understandings, so that its supporters did not always concur with one another about the exact implications of this identity.