Vittoria Colonna : : Poetry, Religion, Art, Impact / / ed. by Shannon McHugh, Virginia Cox.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Brundin, Abigail,; Chávez, Humberto González,; Copello, Veronica,; Cox, Virginia,; Crivelli, Tatiana,; Falkeid, Unn,; Furstenberg-Levi, Shulamit,; Geronimus, Dennis,; Maratsos, Jessica,; McHugh, Shannon,; Nygren, Christopher J.,; Prodan, Sarah Rolfe,; Sapegno, Maria Serena,; Targoff, Ramie,; Torre, Andrea,; Wainwright, Anna,
• HerausgeberIn: Cox, Virginia,; McHugh, Shannon,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World ; 16
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (406 p.)

This edited collection presents fresh and original work on Vittoria Colonna, perhaps the outstanding female figure of the Italian Renaissance, a leading Petrarchist poet, and an important figure in the Italian Reform movement. Until recently best known for her close spiritual friendship with Michelangelo, she is increasingly recognized as a powerful and distinctive poetic voice, a cultural and religious icon, and an important literary model for both men and women. This volume comprises compelling new research by established and emerging scholars in the fields of literature, book history, religious history, and art history, including several studies of Colonna’s influence during the Counter-Reformation, a period long neglected by Italian cultural historiography. The Colonna who emerges from this new reading is one who challenges traditional constructions of women’s place in Italian literature; no mere imitator or follower, but an innovator and founder of schools in her own right.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Twenty-First Century Vittoria Colonna -- Part 1. Literary and Spiritual Sociability -- 1. The D’Avalos-Colonna Literary Circle: A ‘Renewed Parnassus' -- 2. Late Love: Vittoria Colonna and Reginald Pole -- Part 2. Widowhood -- 3. Magistra apostolorum: The Virgin Mary in Birgitta of Sweden and Vittoria Colonna -- 4. Outdoing Colonna: Widowhood Poetry in the Late Cinquecento -- Part 3. Poetry -- 5. The Epistolary Vittoria -- 6. ‘Ex illo mea, mi Daniel, Victoria pendet’: A Forgotten Spiritual Epigram by Vittoria Colonna -- 7. Religious Desire in the Poetry of Vittoria Colonna : Insights into Early Modern Piety and Poetics -- Part 4. Art -- 8. ‘Inscribed Upon Their Hearts’: Copying and the Dissemination of Devotion -- 9. Titian, Colonna, and the Gender of Pictorial Devotion -- 10. ‘A More Loving and Constant Heart’: Vittoria Colonna, Alfonso d’Avalos, Michelangelo and the Complicated History of Pontormo’s Noli me tangere -- Part 5. Readership -- 11. ‘Leading Others on the Road to Salvation’: Vittoria Colonna and Her Readers -- 12. ‘In Competition with and Perhaps More Felicitously Than Petrarch’: The Canonization of Vittoria Colonna in Rinaldo Corso’s Tutte le rime (1558) -- Part 6. Impact -- 13. Colonna and Petrarch in the Rime of Lucia Colao -- 14. ‘I Take Thee’: Vittoria Colonna, Conjugal Verse and Male poeti colonnesi -- 15. ‘She Showed the World a Beacon of Female Worth’ : Vittoria Colonna in Arcadia -- Volume Bibliography -- Index of Citations of Colonna’s Letters and Verse -- Thematic Index