Bernardo wa Besse

Bernardo wa Besse (alifariki 1300 hivi) alikuwa mtawa Mfransisko na karani wa Bonaventura wa Bagnoregio 

Aliandika vitabu mbalimbali, hasa Liber de Laudibus Beati Francisci (1280 hivi) Besides a resume of some of the earlier legends, it contains brief and valuable information about the companions of St. Francis and the foundation of the three Franciscan Orders, and is the only thirteenth-century document which specifies the first biographies of St. Francis., orodha ya wakuu wa shirika la Ndugu Wadogo toka mwanzo hadi karibu na mwisho wa karne ya 13 Critical editions of both these works have been published by the Friars Minor of Quaracchi [in Analecta Franciscana, III (1897), 666–707] and by Father Hilarin Felder of Lucerne, O. M. Cap. "Liber de Laudibus" etc. (Rome, 1897)., na maisha ya Kristofa wa Romagna inserted in the Chronica XXIV Generalium (ed. Quaracchi, 1897, 161–173). 

Ndiye anayefikiriwa (See Bonav. Opera Omnia ed. Quaracchi, 1898, VIII, 583 sqq. and 663 sqq.) kuwa mwandishi halisi wa kitabu “Kielelezo cha Nidhamu” (Speculum Disciplinae) ambacho kililenga kusaidia walezi wa shirika la Ndugu Wadogo kustawisha maadili, nidhamu, adabu njema, usafi na taratibu za kimonaki kuliko mitindo asili ya Kifransisko. Kwa kudhaniwa kazi ya Bonaventura, kiliongoza karne kadhaa malezi ya wanovisi . Ni vilevile kuhusu Epistola ad Quendam Novitium. 

Tanbihi

Vyanzo
 Luke Wadding, Scriptores Ord. Minorum (1650), 59, and Sbaralea, Supplementum (1806), 135
 Fabricius, Johann Albert, Bib. Med. Aev. (1734), 218
 Daunou, Histoire littéraire de la France (1838), XIX, 437
 Denifle, Archiv. f. litt. und Kirchengesch. des M. A. (1885), I, 145 sqq. and 630 sqq., also Misc. Francescana (1886), I, L sqq.
 Othon de Pavie, L'Aquitaine Seraphique (1900), I, passim.
 Thomas Ferencik, O.F.M., "Das Buch über die drei Orden des hl. Franziskus" des Bernhard von Besse, Wissenschaft und Weisheit (1995), Bd. 58/2
Jamii:waliozaliwa karne ya 13
Jamii:waliofariki 1300
Jamii:waandishi wa Kilatini
Jamii:mapadri
Jamii:Wafransisko
Jamii:waandishi wa Ufaransa