Title
Poets of Divine Love : The Rhetoric of Franciscan Spiritual Poetry / Alessandro Vettori.
ISBN
9780823292370
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
Copyright
©2004
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (320 p.)
Item Number
10.1515/9780823292370 doi
Summary
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.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
System Details Note
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023)
Series
Fordham Series in Medieval Studies
Available in Other Form
print 9780823223251
Frontmatter
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Adviso to Reader
Introduction
Part One
1. Theater of Nudity
2. Mysticism of Sexual Union
3. Harmony of the Cosmos
Part Two
4. Origins of the Canon
5. Theology of Ravishment
6. Ecstasy of Agapic Love
7. Symphony of the Ineffable
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
