Iacopone Da Todi

The Power of Mysticism and the Originality of Franciscan Poetry
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-51231-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 23, 398 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 811 g

Reihe: The Medieval Franciscans

The first ever collection of essays in English on Iacopone da Todi (ca. 1230 – 25 December 1306) by a diverse group of international scholars, this book covers a wide range of topics and reassesses critical perspectives on a neglected poet.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Leonardi, Matteo

Vettori, Alessandro

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Mittelalterliche & Scholastische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).