Poets of Divine Love: Franciscan Mystical Poetry of the Thirteenth Century.(Book Review)

From: Church History | Date: June 1, 2005| Author: Cunningham, Lawrence S. | Copyright information

Poets of Divine Love: Franciscan Mystical Poetry of the Thirteenth Century. By Alessandro Vettori. Fordham Series in Medieval Studies 3. New York: Fordham University Press, 2004. xxi + 227 pp. $55.00 cloth.

Apropos of the title of this work we should note that the Franciscan poetry that Vettori treats is limited to poetry in the Italian vernacular, which means, in effect, that his subject has as its precise focus the poetry of Jacopone da Todi and the "Canticle" of Saint...

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