Poets of Divine Love : : The Rhetoric of Franciscan Spiritual Poetry / / Alessandro Vettori.
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 exp...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Fordham Series in Medieval Studies
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Table of 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