Biography of vittoria colonna
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Vittoria Colonna
Italian poet and noble
Vittoria Colonna (April 1492[1] – 25 February 1547), marchioness of Pescara, was an Italian noblewoman and poet. As an educated and married noblewoman whose husband was in captivity, Colonna was able to develop relationships within the intellectual circles of Ischia and Naples. Her early poetry began to attract attention in the late 1510s[2] and she ultimately became one of the most popular poets of 16th-century Italy. Upon the early death of her husband, she took refuge at a convent in Rome. She remained a laywoman but experienced a strong spiritual renewal and remained devoutly religious for the rest of her life. Colonna is also known to have been a muse to Michelangelo Buonarroti, himself a poet.
Early life and marriage
[edit]Colonna was born at Marino in 1492, a fief of the Colonna family in the Alban Hills, near Rome. She was the daughter of Fabrizio Colonna, grand constable of the Kingdom of Naples, and of Agnese da Montefeltro, daughter of the Duke of Urbino. She was engaged in 1495 at the age of 3 years old to "Ferrante" Fernando Francesco d'Ávalos, son of the marquese di Pescara, at the insistence of Ferdinand, King of Naples.[2]
In 1501, the Colonna family's possessions a
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Vittoria Colonna - LAST REVIEWED: 30 September 2013
- LAST MODIFIED: 30 September 2013
- DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780195399301-0077
- LAST REVIEWED: 30 September 2013
- LAST MODIFIED: 30 September 2013
- DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780195399301-0077
Bassanese, Fiora A. “Vittoria Colonna.” In Italian Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook. Edited by Rinaldina Russell, 85–94. London: Greenwood, 1994.
Contains a bibliography of works published prior to the early 1990s, and is useful as a starting point for undergraduate reading.
Brundin, Abigail. Vittoria Colonna and the Spiritual Poetics of the Italian Reformation. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2008.
An examination of Colonna’s print and manuscript circulation in the 16th century, together with an analysis of her involvement in reform circles and the influence of this religious environment on her literary production.
Cox, Virginia. Women’s Writing in Italy 1400–1650. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
Considers Colonna alongside her contemporary Veronica Gambara in the broader context of women’s literary participation, and establishes her key role as a model for the tradition of women’s writing that followed in her century and after.
Cox, Virginia. The Prodigious Muse: Women’s Writing in Counter-Reformation Italy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University P
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