Poets of Divine Love The Rhetoric of Franciscan Spiritual Poetry Alessandro Vettori $60.00 ISBN: 9780823223251 Book (Hardcover) 320 pages May 2004 Quantity:

St. Francis of Assisi (c. 1181-1226) and Jacopone da Todi (c. 1236-1306) were 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, Alessandro Vettori investigates the emerging Franciscan tradition in motifs of the body, in metaphors of matrimony, and in musical harmony. He also explores the relationships between Francis’s poetic mission and Genesis, erotic love, ecstatic union, and the poetics of the sermon. Alessandro Vettori teaches in the Department of Italian at Rutgers University.

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