Iacopone da Todi: The Power of Mysticism and the Originality of Franciscan Poetry

Author:   Matteo Leonardi ,  Alessandro Vettori
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   23
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9789004512313


Pages:   398
Publication Date:   29 November 2023
Format:   Hardback
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The first ever collection of essays in English on Iacopone da Todi by a diverse group of international scholars, this book offers a contemporary critical assessment on this medieval Franciscan poet of the thirteenth century. Combining philological analyses with thematic studies and philosophical and theological interpretations of the original contents and style of Iacopone’s poetry, the collection considers a wide range of topics, from music to prayer and performance, mysticism, asceticism, ineffability, Mariology, art, poverty, and the challenges of translation. It is a major contribution to the understanding of Iacopone’s laude in the 21st century. Contributors are Erminia Ardissino, Alvaro Cacciotti, Nicolò Crisafi, Anne-Gaëlle Cuif, Federica Franzè, Alexander J.B. Hampton, Magdalena Maria Kubas, Matteo Leonardi, Brian K. Reynolds, Oana Sălișteanu, Samia Tawwab, Alessandro Vettori, Carlo Zacchetti, and Estelle Zunino.

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Author:   Matteo Leonardi ,  Alessandro Vettori
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   23
Weight:   0.811kg
ISBN:  

9789004512313


ISBN 10:   9004512314
Pages:   398
Publication Date:   29 November 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: Inside the Hood of the Mendicant: Iacopone’s Hidden Face PART 1: Style, Rhetoric, Music, and the Construction of Poetic Identity 1 Poetry as Prayer in Iacopone’s Laude  Erminia Ardissino 2 Medieval Self-Fashioning: Performances of Personality and Authority in Iacopone and Dante  Nicolò Crisafi 3 “O novo canto, c’ài morto el planto de l’omo enfermato!”: The Musical Spirit of Iacopone’s Laudario and the Development of a New Italian Melody  Federica Franzè 4 Educating, Enlightening, Edifying: Iacopone Da Todi’s Intellectual Journey  Estelle Zunino PART 2: Translation, Transformation, Adaptation 5 Ineffability and the Urgent Need to Tell: Comparing Four Twentieth-Century Translations of Laudas  Magdalena Maria Kubas 6 Translating Iacopone da Todi in Romanian: a Noble Journey toward and inward amor d’esmesuranza  Oana Sali?teanu PART 3: The Language of Mysticism, Asceticism, and Marian Devotion 7 “Prindi da me dolcezza …”: Sweetness as a Principle of Asceticism and Salvation in the Laude of Iacopone Da Todi  Anne-Gaëlle Cuif 8 Rhythm and Poetic Mysticism in the Laude of Iacopone Da Todi  Alexander J. B. Hampton 9 “Sapor de Sapïenza”: Spiritual Senses and Body of the Spirit in Iacopone’s Laude  Matteo Leonardi 10 The Marian Laude of Iacopone da Todi: Tradition and Renewal  Brian K. Reynolds 11 Victorine Traces in Iacopone’s Laude  Carlo Zacchetti PART 4: The Many Forms of Franciscanism 12 Francis of Assisi and Franciscanism in the Laudario of Iacopone da Todi  Alvaro Cacciotti 13 Image and Performance in Iacopone’s Laudario: the Case of Lauda 78, “Un arbore è da Deo plantato”  Samia Tawwab 14 In Sickness and in Health: Iacopone’s Mystical Marriage through Malady  Alessandro Vettori Index

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Matteo Leonardi, Ph.D, (2005), Università di Torino & Università di Trento, is a specialist of medieval literature. He published the first complete edition of Iacopone’s Laude (2010), the Bibliografia iacoponica (2010), Bonvesin da la Riva’s Libro delle tre scritture (2014), and Storia della Lauda, secoli XIII-XVI (2021). Alessandro Vettori, Ph.D. (1995), Yale, is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University. He specializes in medieval Franciscan writers (Poets of Divine Love, 2004), the rewriting of scripture (Giuseppe Berto, La passione della scrittura, 2013), and Dante (Prayerful Pilgrimage, 2019).

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