Poets of Divine Love

The Rhetoric of Franciscan Spiritual Poetry

AvAlessandro Vettori

Inbunden, Engelska, 2004

Del i serien Fordham Series in Medieval Studies

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Beskrivning

St. Francis of Assisi (c. 1181-1226) and Jacopone da Todi (c.1236-1306) were but two exemplars of a rich school of mystical poets writing in Umbria in the Franciscan religious tradition. Their powerful creations form a significant corpus of medieval Italian vernacular poetry only now being fully explored.Drawing on a wide range of literary, historical, linguistic, and anthropological approaches, Vettori crafts an innovative portrait of the artists as legends and as poets. He investigates the essential features of emerging Franciscan tradition, in motifs of the body, metaphors of matrimony, and musical harmony. Vettori also explores the relationship of Francis's poetic mission to Genesis, the relationship between erotic love and ecstatic union in both poets' work, and the poetics of the sermon.

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Utgivningsdatum:2004-08-23
Mått:152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:514 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Fordham Series in Medieval Studies
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:Fordham University Press
ISBN:9780823223251

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Alessandro Vettori teaches in the Department of Italian, Rutgers University.

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"Drawing on literary, historical, linguistic, and anthropological approaches, Vettori examies Francis of Assisi's 'The Canticle of Brother Sun' and Jacopone's Laude from a collection of more than 100 poems." -Theology Digest