Vittoria Colonna : : Poetry, Religion, Art, Impact /

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

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 Michela...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (406 p.)
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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

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