Description
Book SynopsisThe 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 Iacopone’s 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 Iacopone’s 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 Sălișteanu, Samia Tawwab, Alessandro Vettori, Carlo Zacchetti, and Estelle Zunino.
Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: Inside the Hood of the Mendicant: Iacopone’s Hidden Face PART 1: Style, Rhetoric, Music, and the Construction of Poetic Identity 1 Poetry as Prayer in Iacopone’s Laude Erminia Ardissino 2 Medieval Self-Fashioning: Performances of Personality and Authority in Iacopone and Dante Nicolò Crisafi 3 “O novo canto, c’ài morto el planto de l’omo enfermato!”: The Musical Spirit of Iacopone’s Laudario and the Development of a New Italian Melody Federica Franzè 4 Educating, Enlightening, Edifying: Iacopone Da Todi’s Intellectual Journey Estelle Zunino PART 2: Translation, Transformation, Adaptation 5 Ineffability and the Urgent Need to Tell: Comparing Four Twentieth-Century Translations of Laudas Magdalena Maria Kubas 6 Translating Iacopone da Todi in Romanian: a Noble Journey toward and inward amor d’esmesuranza Oana Sali?teanu PART 3: The Language of Mysticism, Asceticism, and Marian Devotion 7 “Prindi da me dolcezza …”: Sweetness as a Principle of Asceticism and Salvation in the Laude of Iacopone Da Todi Anne-Gaëlle Cuif 8 Rhythm and Poetic Mysticism in the Laude of Iacopone Da Todi Alexander J. B. Hampton 9 “Sapor de Sapïenza”: Spiritual Senses and Body of the Spirit in Iacopone’s Laude Matteo Leonardi 10 The Marian Laude of Iacopone da Todi: Tradition and Renewal Brian K. Reynolds 11 Victorine Traces in Iacopone’s Laude Carlo Zacchetti PART 4: The Many Forms of Franciscanism 12 Francis of Assisi and Franciscanism in the Laudario of Iacopone da Todi Alvaro Cacciotti 13 Image and Performance in Iacopone’s Laudario: the Case of Lauda 78, “Un arbore è da Deo plantato” Samia Tawwab 14 In Sickness and in Health: Iacopone’s Mystical Marriage through Malady Alessandro Vettori Index
