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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vettori, Alessandro, Author.

Series:

Fordham Series in Medieval Studies

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

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

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mrz 2022)

ISBN:

0-8232-9237-1

OCLC:

1350688810