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The first ever collection of essays in English on Iacopone da Todi (ca. 1230 ? 25 December 1306) by a diverse group of international scholars, this book covers a wide range of topics and reassesses critical perspectives on a neglected poet.

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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 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, Nicol? Crisafi, Anne-Gaëlle Cuif, Federica Franz?, Alexander J.B. Hampton, Magdalena Maria Kubas, Matteo Leonardi, Brian K. Reynolds, Oana Săli?teanu, Samia Tawwab, Alessandro Vettori, Carlo Zacchetti, and Estelle Zunino.

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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

 Nicol? Crisafi

3 ?O novo canto, c??i morto el planto de l?omo enfermato!?: The Musical Spirit of Iacopone?s Laudario and the Development of a New Italian Melody

 Federica Franz?

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 Sap?enza?: 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 ? da Deo plantato?

 Samia Tawwab

14 In Sickness and in Health: Iacopone?s Mystical Marriage through Malady

 Alessandro Vettori



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