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Glory (La gloria) is Giuseppe Berto’s testamentary novel.
The first-person narration of the Gospel in the voice of Judas
Iscariot constitutes Berto’s closing argument in a life-long
debate with Christianity. His interpretation of the gospel story is
certainly unconventional, even oppositional. Rather than a
rejection of the Christian faith in which he was raised and
educated, however, Berto fashions an alternative account to the
four canonical gospels that ultimately constructs a competing view
of the human condition and of humanity’s prospects for
redemption. In Berto’s parodic rendition of the Christian gospel,
Judas, after a lifetime of tormented interrogation, decides to
embrace the ambiguity of the human condition, which is, as he
describes it, a liminal existence played out over a long and trying
transition of unknown and unknowable duration, between the original
paradise of the Garden of Eden and the final redemption at the end
of days—a period otherwise known as history.     
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Glory (La gloria) is Giuseppe Berto’s testamentary novel.
The first-person narration of the Gospel in the voice of Judas
Iscariot constitutes Berto’s closing argument in a life-long
debate with Christianity. His interpretation of the gospel story is
certainly unconventional, even oppositional. Rather than a
rejection of the Christian faith in which he was raised and
educated, however, Berto fashions an alternative account to the
four canonical gospels that ultimately constructs a competing view
of the human condition and of humanity’s prospects for
redemption. In Berto’s parodic rendition of the Christian gospel,
Judas, after a lifetime of tormented interrogation, decides to
embrace the ambiguity of the human condition, which is, as he
describes it, a liminal existence played out over a long and trying
transition of unknown and unknowable duration, between the original
paradise of the Garden of Eden and the final redemption at the end
of days—a period otherwise known as history.     
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St. Francis of Assisi (c. 1181-1226) and Jacopone da Todi
(c.1236-1306) were but two exemplars of a rich school of mystical
poets writing in Umbria in the Franciscan religious tradition.
Their powerful creations form a significant corpus of medieval
Italian vernacular poetry only now being fully explored.Drawing on
a wide range of literary, historical, linguistic, and
anthropological approaches, Vettori crafts an innovative portrait
of the artists as legends and as poets. He investigates the
essential features of emerging Franciscan tradition, in motifs of
the body, metaphors of matrimony, and musical harmony. Vettori also
explores the relationship of Francis's poetic mission to Genesis,
the relationship between erotic love and ecstatic union in both
poets' work, and the poetics of the sermon.
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