A biography of Joseph of Copertino ( Cupertino), famous as "the monk who could fly." It was written by Brother Paolo Antonio Agelli and published in 1753, the year of Joseph's beatification but several years before his canonization in 1767. It was translated into English in 2014 by Christopher David Costanzo. This biography describes Joseph of Copertino with vivid frankness, including his childhood, his relationship with his mother, his physical and mental shortcomings, his humiliation at the hands of family and acquaintances, and his later asceticism and self-mortification. It is clear that...