Le laude antibonifaciane di Iacopone

L'articolo si propone come analisi interdisciplinare di alcuni componimenti del poeta francescano Iacopone da Todi, scritti tra il 1297 e il 1300, che ci consentono di comprendere l'atteggiamento del frate tuderte nei confronti dell'operato del pontefice Bonifacio VIII, la sua forte tensione morale ed il suo vivo interesse per una radicale riforma della Chiesa romana. Three among the most famous laude of Iacopone da Todi testify some of the principal moments of the life of the Franciscan poet: his involvement in the lacerating and dramatic conflict that opposed the powerful Roman Colonna family to Boniface VIII, his following excommunication, his imprisonment in an underground jail, his exasperated moral tension. The first laude, written in 1297/98, is a hard and violent invective against the pope’s, his vices and errors, underlined in a crescendo of accusations (avarice, nepotism, love for the ephemeral things). Nevertheless Iacopone doesn't doubt the legitimacy of the election of the cardinal Caetani, wich is the principal accusation against the pope advanced by the Colonna. The other two laude are supplications ti the pope composed while in jail. The first one, written in 1299, is almost impudent and impertinent, while the second one, pf 1300, is more humble and grieved. They both enlighten Iacopone’s inner turmoil in the hard years of his imprisonment and testify an extraordinary and unexpected internal evolution.