Iacopone da Todi

Matteo Leonardi, Ph.D, (2005), Università di Torino & Università di Trento, is a specialist of medieval literature. He published the first complete edition of Iacopone’s Laude (2010), the Bibliografia iacoponica (2010), Bonvesin da la Riva’s 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).

• List of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Inside the Hood of the Mendicant: Iacopone’s Hidden FacePART 1: Style, Rhetoric, Music, and the Construction of Poetic Identity1 Poetry as Prayer in Iacopone’s LaudeErminia Ardissino2 Medieval Self-Fashioning: Performances of Personality and Authority in Iacopone and DanteNicolò Crisafi3 “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 MelodyFederica Franzè4 Educating, Enlightening, Edifying: Iacopone Da Todi’s Intellectual JourneyEstelle ZuninoPART 2: Translation, Transformation, Adaptation5 Ineffability and the Urgent Need to Tell: Comparing Four Twentieth-Century Translations of LaudasMagdalena Maria Kubas6 Translating Iacopone da Todi in Romanian: a Noble Journey toward and inward amor d’esmesuranzaOana Sali?teanuPART 3: The Language of Mysticism, Asceticism, and Marian Devotion7 “Prindi da me dolcezza …”: Sweetness as a Principle of Asceticism and Salvation in the Laude of Iacopone Da TodiAnne-Gaëlle Cuif8 Rhythm and Poetic Mysticism in the Laude of Iacopone Da TodiAlexander J. B. Hampton9 “Sapor de Sapïenza”: Spiritual Senses and Body of the Spirit in Iacopone’s LaudeMatteo Leonardi10 The Marian Laude of Iacopone da Todi: Tradition and RenewalBrian K. Reynolds11 Victorine Traces in Iacopone’s LaudeCarlo ZacchettiPART 4: The Many Forms of Franciscanism12 Francis of Assisi and Franciscanism in the Laudario of Iacopone da TodiAlvaro Cacciotti13 Image and Performance in Iacopone’s Laudario: the Case of Lauda 78, “Un arbore è da Deo plantato”Samia Tawwab14 In Sickness and in Health: Iacopone’s Mystical Marriage through MaladyAlessandro VettoriIndex