Iacopone da Todi

List 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

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