The International Contribution to the Study of Jacopone da Todi

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abstract:This article lists 113 bibliographic references from the last 110 years, of books and other critical works on Jacopone da Todi, published in languages other than Italian and/or in countries other than Italy. This research is part of a larger project to create an international database of all publications concerning Jacopone. The specific purpose of the article is to revisit and update comments made by Louise Katainen in 1996, asserting that Italian scholars had neglected contributions in English on Jacopone and that this had resulted in an "impoverished understanding" of the great poet and mystic of Todi.