Targoff’s well-researched, thoughtful biography reveals Colonna as a complex woman who turned grief and a spiritual quest into a renowned literary reputation. Colonna also became part of the failed Catholic reformation movement as a result, the Vatican compiled Inquisition documents listing her “heretical beliefs.” The unpublished documents and other contemporary sources Targoff presents, along with lines from the sonnets, illuminate Colonna’s reformist tendencies.
Like her poetry, Colonna’s life centered on both the secular and the sacred her friendship with Michelangelo and occasional political involvement contrasted with her frequent convent stays. Targoff provides several helpful translations of Colonna’s poems, accompanied by clear explications of her struggles with mourning and spirituality, which her letters also documented. But her romantic paeans to her late husband and religious sonnets encouraged other women to publish and inspired established male poets to ask for her elegant literary critiques of their work.
Humble despite her family’s high stature, Colonna was shocked when her literary work was published. Indeed, despite the fact that he was born in Naples, he always felt like a Spaniard and even spoke his native language with Vittoria.Targoff ( Common Prayer), professor of English and cochair of Italian studies at Brandeis University, paints Vittoria Colonna (1492–1547) as an embodiment of the Italian Renaissance in this enjoyable narrative, noting Colonna’s intense religiosity and role as the first published female Italian poet. Since the war itself was the point of life of Fernando d'Ávalos, during his service as a condottiere (the leader of mercenary military detachments), he fought both on the side of the Italians and on the side of the Spaniards against the French-Venetian army. Vittoria was probably blissfully unaware, because all the years of separation (which outnumbered the years spent together), the couple exchanged passionate messages, including poetic ones. " He was angry and cruel, he despised human suffering, even among his comrades stood he out not only as ferocious, but sometimes as enjoying the disasters and ruin he caused," this is how documents describe him. Some time around 1540, Colonna prepared a manuscript of 103 spiritual sonnets as a gift for Michelangelo Buonarroti, her close friend whom she saw often in Rome. complementary edition of Colonna’s Sonnets for Michelangelo 2005. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2008. Legends circulated about the love affairs of Fernando d'Ávalos, his feats of arms and his ruthlessness as well. Vittoria Colonna and the Spiritual Poetics of the Italian Reformation. Opponents seldom managed to resist the strength and pressure of the Marquis di Pescara, and the ladies surrendered him without a fight.
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