Poets of Divine Love The Rhetoric of Franciscan Spiritual Poetry

Informationen zum Autor Alessandro Vettori teaches in the Department of Italian, Rutgers University. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Clearly written! this incisive critical study opens a new analytic window not only to the rhetoric of medieval Italian poetry but also to a richer understanding of one of the most important strands of medieval European culture.

Product details

• Authors: Alessandro Vettori
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 23.08.2004
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general)
• EAN: 9780823223251
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-2325-1
• Pages: 320
• Dimensions (packing): 15.9 x 23.5 x 1.9 cm
• Series: Fordham Series in Medieval Stu > 3; Fordham Series in Medieval Studies; Fordham Series in Medieval Studies; Fordham Series in Medieval Stu > 3
• Subjects: Religion - Inspirational / Spirituality; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical; RELIGION / Devotional