A folio volume (30.7 x 21 cm). Bound in full vintage leather, ribbed spine, metal clasps, somewhat damaged in the shoulders and corners. 8 sheets, including the title page, with wood engraved coat of arms, 604 pp. (for the first four parts), 1 table sheet and 1 blank sheet, 4 sheets, including a title page for the fifth part with a wood engraved coat of arms on the centre, 229 pp, 1 sheet. Printed in two columns, wood engraved initials, a small wood engraving in the text. Red-ruled specimen. Some rust spots on the first leaves, outer margin of fol. 321 is somewhat damaged, it doesn’t affect the text. Among his works, this is the one Brother Luis put the most effort. Divided into five parts, this apologetic treatise suggested by the contemplation of nature is his most extensive writing. The first part is a passionate description of the wonders of creation that stops thoroughly and delicately in the minuscule details. His literary eloquence and the moving depth of his background indeed focus on the attention to humble things; with a kind of intimate Franciscanism, the seemingly insignificant is wounded by his expressive tenderness and passionate speech, as when he talks about the webs that spiders weave to hunt their prey. The second and third parts, more doctrinal, respectively set out the excellence of the Christian faith and the mystery of redemption. Brother Luis de Granada offers a magnificent rhetorical prose, and one of the richest qualities of spirituality and religious dynamism, which do him credit as one of the great figures of Spanish asceticism. A distinguished speaker and writer, as early as in his time he was known in all fairness as Spain’s Cicero.’ Ruiza, M., Fernández, T. and Tamaro, E. (2004). Biography of Brother Luis de Granada. In Biografías y vidas. La enciclopedia biográfica en línea. Barcelona (Spain).”