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The Medieval Church · c. 1270–1306
The Lauds
Laude
Jacopone da Todi · c. 1230–1306
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What it is
Vernacular songs of love, self-mockery, and savage satire against a pope who imprisoned him, alongside a dramatic lament of Mary at the cross.
Why it lasted
The greatest religious poet of medieval Italy before Dante, and a Spiritual Franciscan who wrote much of his best work in a papal dungeon.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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