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Poets of Divine Love : The Rhetoric of Franciscan Spiritual Poetry / Alessandro Vettori.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Fordham Series in Medieval StudiesPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2004Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780823223251
  • 9780823292370
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Contents:
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
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.
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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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