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Music: There's something about Jonathan Jonathan Richman introduced us to the abominable snowman in the supermarket. Now, like wow, he's a film star.
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Yes, whatever did happen to Jonathan Richman, and why are people
suddenly mentioning his name in such reverential tones again? Half
an answer is provided by the gross movie There's Something About
Mary, in which the Farrelly brothers cast Richman as a travelling
singer- cum-Greek Chorus, who adds an element of sweetness to a film
larded with vile jokes about zip-trapped dicks, spunky hair mousse,
cripples and stalking.
"The Farrellys took me and my drummer {Tommy Larkins} out for
dinner and said `we want you to be like Nat `King' Cole and Stubby
Kaye in Cat Ballou. You're singing narrators'. ...
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Medieval studies.
Magazine article from: Michigan Academician
; ...arguments of her detractors. Jacopone Da Todi and Property. Thomas Renna...that the ideas of poverty in Jacopone da Todi's Lauds (such lauds 28, 31...part a reply to the writings of Jacopone da Todi. 2) some scholars (F. Suitner...
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Elena Landoni. La grammatica come storia della poesia: un nuovo disegno storiografico per la letteratura italiana delle origini attraverso grammatica, retorica e semantica.(Italian Bookshelf)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Annali d'Italianistica
; ...those of the Scuola Siciliana, Jacopone da Todi, Guittone d'Arezzo, Dante...this newly defined category are Jacopone da Todi, Guittone d'Arezzo and Cecco...linguaggio erotico" (171-72). Jacopone Da Todi's texts are all about the praise...
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Poets of Divine Love: Franciscan Mystical Poetry of the Thirteenth Century.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Church History
; ...its precise focus the poetry of Jacopone da Todi and the "Canticle" of Saint Francis...thematic reading of the lauds of Jacopone. Interest in poetry by Francis...other things, critical editions of Jacopone's lauds and intense studies of...
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On the Lord's appearing: what happens when we pray.
Magazine article from: Catholic Insight
; ...Catholic spirituality. One such is Jacopone da Todi, a thirteeth-century Franciscan...Encyclopedia Britannica. The canonicity of da Todi's poetry, however, is not what...bases his discussion of prayer on da Todi's "Five Ways in Which God Reveals...
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The God of philosophy and of the Bible: theological reflections on Regensburg.
Magazine article from: Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture
; ...redivivus, the medieval friar Jacopone da Todi, long considered the author of...middle of the thirteenth century, Jacopone was irritated with the growing...Philosophical reasoning, for Jacopone, deadens and defaces the fiery...
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Classical: A contemporary take on Sixties minimalism OXFORD CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL ST BARNABAS/ST MATTHEW'S OXFORD
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...amore. The Italian words are by the medieval mystic Jacopone da Todi, and continue the tradition of ecstatic Laude, in praise of the created world, which derive from Jacopone's master St Francis of Assisi himself. Since their...
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Poverty and Joy: The Franciscan Tradition.(Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Commonweal
; ...writing in the Franciscan tradition: medieval masters and mistresses such as Angela of Foligno, the poet Jacopone da Todi, Ubertino da Casale (who influenced Dante), Saint Bonaventure, and Duns Scotus. Short also traces the effect that Franciscan...
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Il genere 'tenzone' nelle letterature romanze delle origini (Atti del convegno di Losanna, 13-15 novembre 1997).(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; ...between Jacopo Mostacci, Pier delle Vigne, and Giacomo da Lentini on the nature of love. In spite of diverging...Dialogic structures are shown to play an important role in Jacopone da Todi's adaptation of minstrel patterns and lower registers...
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Baroque: Palestrina, Monteverdi, Choral Works.
Magazine article from: National Review
; ...gives us two settings of that great mystical and devotional poem, the Stabat Mater of the thirteenth-century monk Jacopone da Todi. It has captured the imagination of composers ever since then. Perhaps the most famous of these settings is by Giovanni...
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How not to witness.
Magazine article from: Presbyterian Record
; ...books and a study. But the ideals of simplicity, humility and poverty were never surrendered. The Franciscan poet Jacopone da Todi wrote: "Poverty is to have nothing, and desire nothing; and to possess all things in the spirit of liberty...
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