biography
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Jacopone da Todi
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originally Iacopo di Iacobello dei Benedetti
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pronunciation:
[yakopohnay da toh
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1236–1306)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Todi, Umbria, C Italy. Following the tragic death of his wife, he abandoned his profession as a solicitor and joined the order of the Friars Minor in 1278. In the controversy within the order, he sided with the ‘spiritual’ faction, and was excommunicated by Pope Boniface VIII (1298) and jailed. Freed in 1303, he spent his last years in a monastery. His poetry, religious in theme, is full of violently expressed love of God and strong condemnation of vices and the corruption of the clergy. His language is sensual, based on the Umbrian dialect. He wrote 100 Laude and some works in Latin (Stabat mater). |
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