A Watch in the Night Art and Poetry Appalled by New York’s widespread

Appalled by New York’s widespread political corruption and pockets of abject poverty

Combining extraordinary empathy with relentless candor

and Wyoming Catholic College

and the Renaissance popes: Nicholas V

A Watch in the Night Art and Poetry Appalled by New York’s widespreadBy Helen C. White A Watch in the Night tells of one Jacopone da Todi, a famous poet of the Middle Ages. Devastated by the sudden death of his wife, Jacopone forsakes all his earthy possessions, undertaking a new life of asceticism and penance and eventually joining the Franciscan Order. There he assumes a critical role in the Orders internal struggles between the Conventuals, who affirm a more lenient interpretation of St. Franciss rule, and