Cynthia O. Ho(†) was Professor Emeritus at University of North Carolina, Asheville. She received her doctorate in English Medieval Literature from the University of Maryland and was co-editor of Finding Saint Francis in Literature and Art (Palgrave, 2009), Crossing the Bridge: Comparative Essays on Heian Japanese and Medieval European Women (Palgrave, 2000), and The Asheville Reader: The Medieval and Renaissance World (Copley, 2003).
Sacred Views of Saint Francis: The Sacro Monte di Orta