Jacopone da Todi (English spelling)

Japanese: Jacopone da Todi（英語表記）JacoponedaTodi

…The authors and performers of the lauda were mainly clergymen belonging to a religious organization called the Brotherhood. Most of the authors of the lauda were anonymous, but some are still known to this day, such as Jacopone da Todi (c. 1236-1306), who wrote laudas such as Tears of the Madonna and The Woman Called to Heaven. The Brotherhood also developed the lauda into a dialogue format, and created and performed many religious plays based on the themes of the Gospels and the lives of saints. …

From [Christian Literature]

...But the greatest Latin religious poem of the Middle Ages is the Day of Wrath, a work attributed to Tommaso da Celano (c. 1190-c. 1260), which sings of the Last Judgment and is still commonly used at funeral ceremonies for the dead. The next most famous chant is the Doxology of the Virgin Mary by Jacopone da Todi (c. 1230-1306). Among the many saints, martyrs, and miracle stories produced throughout the Middle Ages, the one that stands out from the early period is the anonymous Life of Saint Genoveva, which is thought to date back to around the 8th century, and the fairly literary Life of Saint Alexis, which was written in vernacular language in the 11th century. ...

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Japanese:

…このラウダの作者や演じ手は，主として〈兄弟団〉といわれる宗教組織に属する聖職者たちであった。ラウダの作者はほとんどが無名であったが，現在なお名を残している者もあり，その1人がヤコポーネ･ダ･トディJacopone da Todi(1236ころ‐1306)で，《マドンナの涙》や《天国に召される女》といったラウダを書き残している。また，この〈兄弟団〉は，ラウダを対話形式に発展させ，福音書や聖人伝を主題に多くの宗教劇を作っては演じた。…

【キリスト教文学】より

…しかし中世を通じ最大のラテン宗教詩は，トマーソ･ダ･チェラノTommaso da Celano(1190ころ‐1260ころ)の作とされる《怒りの日》で，最後の審判の日を歌い，今でも死者の葬送法会に常用される。ヤコポーネ･ダ･トディJacopone da Todi(1230ころ‐1306)の《聖母受苦頌》も，これにつぐ有名な詠唱である。　中世を通じて多くの聖人伝，殉教者伝，奇跡物語が制作された中で，その初期に異彩を放つのは作者不明の《聖女ゲノウェウァ伝》で，ほぼ8世紀ころにさかのぼると考えられ，俗語でもすでに11世紀にかなり文学的な《聖アレクシ伝》がある。…

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