Iacopone da Todi : The Power of Mysticism and the Originality of Franciscan Poetry  

We are pleased to present in this issue of the Newsletter an extraordinary book, published in English this year (2024) by Brill Publishers of Leiden and Boston.  The book is edited by two eminent scholars, Matteo Leonardi,Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Turin and Alessandro Vettori, Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, who conclude their Introduction as follows: