THIS is Saint Francis of Assisi..." The muscular hands of the heavily bearded man hold high a wooden puppet, created in the likeness of a man dressed in a flowing gray robe. He claims to have added the 12th century Christian mystic to his collection of puppets—pupi in Italian—so that the play he is about to perform won't revolve only around the conflict between Christianity and Islam. Mimmo Cuticchio is one of the leading pu