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Iacopone da Todi
The Power of Mysticism and the Originality of Franciscan Poetry
Series: - The Medieval Franciscans, Volume: 23
The first ever collection of essays in English on Iacopone da Todi by a diverse group of international scholars, this book offers a contemporary critical assessment on this medieval Franciscan poet of the thirteenth century.
Combining philological analyses with thematic studies and philosophical and theological interpretations of the original contents and style of Iacoponeâs poetry, the collection considers a wide range of topics, from music to prayer and performance, mysticism, asceticism, ineffability, Mariology, art, poverty, and the challenges of translation. It is a major contribution to the understanding of Iacoponeâs laude in the 21st century.
Contributors are Erminia Ardissino, Alvaro Cacciotti, Nicolò Crisafi, Anne-Gaëlle Cuif, Federica Franzè, Alexander J.B. Hampton, Magdalena Maria Kubas, Matteo Leonardi, Brian K. Reynolds, Oana SÄliÈteanu, Samia Tawwab, Alessandro Vettori, Carlo Zacchetti, and Estelle Zunino.
Combining philological analyses with thematic studies and philosophical and theological interpretations of the original contents and style of Iacoponeâs poetry, the collection considers a wide range of topics, from music to prayer and performance, mysticism, asceticism, ineffability, Mariology, art, poverty, and the challenges of translation. It is a major contribution to the understanding of Iacoponeâs laude in the 21st century.
Contributors are Erminia Ardissino, Alvaro Cacciotti, Nicolò Crisafi, Anne-Gaëlle Cuif, Federica Franzè, Alexander J.B. Hampton, Magdalena Maria Kubas, Matteo Leonardi, Brian K. Reynolds, Oana SÄliÈteanu, Samia Tawwab, Alessandro Vettori, Carlo Zacchetti, and Estelle Zunino.
Matteo Leonardi, Ph.D, (2005), Università di Torino & Università di Trento, is a specialist of medieval literature. He published the first complete edition of Iacoponeâs Laude (2010), the Bibliografia iacoponica (2010), Bonvesin da la Rivaâs Libro delle tre scritture (2014), and Storia della Lauda, secoli XIII-XVI (2021).
Alessandro Vettori, Ph.D. (1995), Yale, is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University. He specializes in medieval Franciscan writers (Poets of Divine Love, 2004), the rewriting of scripture (Giuseppe Berto, La passione della scrittura, 2013), and Dante (Prayerful Pilgrimage, 2019).
Alessandro Vettori, Ph.D. (1995), Yale, is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University. He specializes in medieval Franciscan writers (Poets of Divine Love, 2004), the rewriting of scripture (Giuseppe Berto, La passione della scrittura, 2013), and Dante (Prayerful Pilgrimage, 2019).
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Inside the Hood of the Mendicant: Iacoponeâs Hidden Face
1 Poetry as Prayer in Iacoponeâs Laude
âErminia Ardissino
2 Medieval Self-Fashioning: Performances of Personality and Authority in Iacopone and Dante
âNicolò Crisafi
3 âO novo canto, câà i morto el planto de lâomo enfermato!â: The Musical Spirit of Iacoponeâs Laudario and the Development of a New Italian Melody
âFederica Franzè
4 Educating, Enlightening, Edifying: Iacopone Da Todiâs Intellectual Journey
âEstelle Zunino
5 Ineffability and the Urgent Need to Tell: Comparing Four Twentieth-Century Translations of Laudas
âMagdalena Maria Kubas
6 Translating Iacopone da Todi in Romanian: a Noble Journey toward and inward amor dâesmesuranza
âOana Sali?teanu
7 âPrindi da me dolcezza â¦â: Sweetness as a Principle of Asceticism and Salvation in the Laude of Iacopone Da Todi
âAnne-Gaëlle Cuif
8 Rhythm and Poetic Mysticism in the Laude of Iacopone Da Todi
âAlexander J. B. Hampton
9 âSapor de Sapïenzaâ: Spiritual Senses and Body of the Spirit in Iacoponeâs Laude
âMatteo Leonardi
10 The Marian Laude of Iacopone da Todi: Tradition and Renewal
âBrian K. Reynolds
11 Victorine Traces in Iacoponeâs Laude
âCarlo Zacchetti
12 Francis of Assisi and Franciscanism in the Laudario of Iacopone da Todi
âAlvaro Cacciotti
13 Image and Performance in Iacoponeâs Laudario: the Case of Lauda 78, âUn arbore è da Deo plantatoâ
âSamia Tawwab
14 In Sickness and in Health: Iacoponeâs Mystical Marriage through Malady
âAlessandro Vettori
Index
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Inside the Hood of the Mendicant: Iacoponeâs Hidden Face
PART 1: Style, Rhetoric, Music, and the Construction of Poetic Identity
1 Poetry as Prayer in Iacoponeâs Laude
âErminia Ardissino
2 Medieval Self-Fashioning: Performances of Personality and Authority in Iacopone and Dante
âNicolò Crisafi
3 âO novo canto, câà i morto el planto de lâomo enfermato!â: The Musical Spirit of Iacoponeâs Laudario and the Development of a New Italian Melody
âFederica Franzè
4 Educating, Enlightening, Edifying: Iacopone Da Todiâs Intellectual Journey
âEstelle Zunino
PART 2: Translation, Transformation, Adaptation
5 Ineffability and the Urgent Need to Tell: Comparing Four Twentieth-Century Translations of Laudas
âMagdalena Maria Kubas
6 Translating Iacopone da Todi in Romanian: a Noble Journey toward and inward amor dâesmesuranza
âOana Sali?teanu
PART 3: The Language of Mysticism, Asceticism, and Marian Devotion
7 âPrindi da me dolcezza â¦â: Sweetness as a Principle of Asceticism and Salvation in the Laude of Iacopone Da Todi
âAnne-Gaëlle Cuif
8 Rhythm and Poetic Mysticism in the Laude of Iacopone Da Todi
âAlexander J. B. Hampton
9 âSapor de Sapïenzaâ: Spiritual Senses and Body of the Spirit in Iacoponeâs Laude
âMatteo Leonardi
10 The Marian Laude of Iacopone da Todi: Tradition and Renewal
âBrian K. Reynolds
11 Victorine Traces in Iacoponeâs Laude
âCarlo Zacchetti
PART 4: The Many Forms of Franciscanism
12 Francis of Assisi and Franciscanism in the Laudario of Iacopone da Todi
âAlvaro Cacciotti
13 Image and Performance in Iacoponeâs Laudario: the Case of Lauda 78, âUn arbore è da Deo plantatoâ
âSamia Tawwab
14 In Sickness and in Health: Iacoponeâs Mystical Marriage through Malady
âAlessandro Vettori
Index
All interested in Medieval Italian poetry, Franciscan Studies, the intersection of poetry and prayer, the interconnections of Christianity and the Bible with poetic expression, music, and performance.