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Poets of Divine Love: Franciscan Mystical Poetry of the Thirteenth Century

Poets of Divine Love: Franciscan Mystical Poetry of the Thirteenth Century

Vettori, Alessandro

Hardcover

Series: Fordham Medieval Studies

Religion General Fiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 0823223256
ISBN13: 9780823223251
Publisher: Fordham Univ Pr
Published: Aug 23 2004
Pages: 226
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.89 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.34
Language: English

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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