International audienceThe present article focuses on the spiritual way of Franciscan recollection (“recogimiento”), that develops in Andalusia and Castilla during the first half part of sixteen century. As a specific method of spiritual introspection that finds /manages reach a loving communication with God, the “recogimiento” opens for the modern man a new route toward the territory of intimacy: the mystical contemplation. That one is reflected in a double dynamic movement: a horizontal journey, reflexive, deep into the inner world of soul, and a vertical experience of transcendence, when soul goes up above itself, through the transformative union in divine Love. We’ll intend to draw / delimit the windings of the spiritual intimacy, thro...