Poets of divine love : Franciscan mystical poetry of the thirteenth century
Alessandro Vettori (Author)
"St. Francis of Assisi (c. 1181-1226) and Lacopone 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 that is only now being fully explored." "Drawing on a wide range of literary, historical, linguistic, and anthropological approaches Alessandro Vettori crafts an innovative portrait of the artists as legends and as poets. He investigates the essential features of the emerging Franciscan tradition, especially 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 estatic union in both poets' work, and the ineffable as a product of a poetics founded on the sermon."--BOOK JACKET
Print Book, English, 2004
Fordham University Press, New York, 2004
xxi, 226 pages ; 24 cm.
9780823223251, 9780823223268, 0823223256, 0823223264
53485310
Theater of nudity
Mysticism of sexual union
Harmony of the cosmos
Origins of the canon
Theology of ravishment
Ecstasy of agapic love
Symphony of the ineffable
English
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