Quote of the day
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Jacopone da Todi
Born: 1236
Died: December 25, 1306 (aged 70)
Bio: Fra Jacopone da Todi, O.F.M. was an Italian Franciscan friar from Umbria in the 13th century. He wrote several laudi in Italian. He was an early pioneer in Italian theatre, being one of the earliest scholars who dramatised Gospel subjects.