Poets of Divine Love: Franciscan Mystical Poetry of the Thirteenth Century - Couverture rigide

Vettori, Alessandro

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0823223256 ISBN 13 : 9780823223251

Editeur : Fordham University Press, 2004

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fordham University Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0823223256
• ISBN 13: 9780823223251
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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