Renaissance Woman

Renaissance Woman
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Total Pages : 353
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ISBN-10 : 9780374140946
ISBN-13 : 0374140944
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis Renaissance Woman by : Ramie Targoff

A biography of Vittoria Colonna, a confidante of Michelangelo, the scion of one of the most powerful families of her era, and a pivotal figure in the Italian Renaissance Ramie Targoff’s Renaissance Woman tells of the most remarkable woman of the Italian Renaissance: Vittoria Colonna, Marchesa of Pescara. Vittoria has long been celebrated by scholars of Michelangelo as the artist’s best friend—the two of them exchanged beautiful letters, poems, and works of art that bear witness to their intimacy—but she also had close ties to Charles V, Pope Clement VII and Pope Paul III, Pietro Bembo, Baldassare Castiglione, Pietro Aretino, Queen Marguerite de Navarre, Reginald Pole, and Isabella d’Este, among others. Vittoria was the scion of an immensely powerful family in Rome during that city’s most explosively creative era. Art and literature flourished, but political and religious life were under terrific strain. Personally involved with nearly every major development of this period—through both her marriage and her own talents—Vittoria was not only a critical political actor and negotiator but also the first woman to publish a book of poems in Italy, an event that launched a revolution for Italian women’s writing. Vittoria was, in short, at the very heart of what we celebrate when we think about sixteenth-century Italy; through her story the Renaissance comes to life anew.

Vittoria Colonna and the Spiritual Poetics of the Italian Reformation

Vittoria Colonna and the Spiritual Poetics of the Italian Reformation
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 235
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ISBN-10 : 9781317001065
ISBN-13 : 1317001060
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis Vittoria Colonna and the Spiritual Poetics of the Italian Reformation by : Abigail Brundin

Vittoria Colonna was one of the best known and most highly celebrated female poets of the Italian Renaissance. Her work went through many editions during her lifetime, and she was widely considered by her contemporaries to be highly skilled in the art of constructing tightly controlled and beautifully modulated Petrarchan sonnets. In addition to her literary contacts, Colonna was also deeply involved with groups of reformers in Italy before the Council of Trent, an involvement which was to have a profound effect on her literary production. In this study, Abigail Brundin examines the manner in which Colonna's poetry came to fulfil, in a groundbreaking and unprecedented way, a reformed spiritual imperative, disseminating an evangelical message to a wide audience reading vernacular literature, and providing a model of spiritual verse which was to be adopted by later poets across the peninsula. She shows how, through careful management of an appropriate literary persona, Colonna's poetry was able to harness the power of print culture to extend its appeal to a much broader audience. In so doing this book manages to provide the vital link between the two central facets of Vittoria Colonna's production: her poetic evangelism, and her careful construction of a gendered identity within the literary culture of her age. The first full length study of Vittoria Colonna in English for a century, this book will be essential reading for scholars interested in issues of gender, literature, religious reform or the dynamics of cultural transmission in sixteenth-century Italy. It also provides an excellent background and contextualisation to anyone wishing to read Colonna's writings or to know more about her role as a mediator between the worlds of courtly Petrachism and religious reform.

A Companion to Vittoria Colonna

A Companion to Vittoria Colonna
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 583
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ISBN-10 : 9789004322332
ISBN-13 : 9004322337
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis A Companion to Vittoria Colonna by : Abigail Brundin

Vittoria Colonna (1490-1547) was the genre-defining secular woman writer of Renaissance Italy, whose literary model helped to establish a decorous and wholly assimilated voice for women within the field of Italian literature. The Companion to Vittoria Colonna brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of leading scholars to assess Colonna’s contribution, both as a writer, a role model, and a contributor to important religious debates of the era. This book, while amply fulfilling the remit of providing a useful and comprehensive handbook to meet the needs of students and scholars at earlier and advanced levels, aims in addition to do more than this, by drawing into a single volume for the first time scholarship from across disciplines in which Vittoria Colonna’s influence has been felt, including literary criticism, religious history, history of art and music. Contributors are: Abigail Brundin, Stephen Bowd, Emidio Campi, Eleonora Carinci, Adriana Chemello, Virginia Cox, Tatiana Crivelli, Maria Forcellino, Gaudenz Freuler, Anne Piéjus, Diana Robin, Helena Sanson, and Maria Serena Sapegno.

VITTORIA COLONNA

VITTORIA COLONNA
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Publisher : epubli GmbH
Total Pages : 332
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ISBN-10 : 3844257500
ISBN-13 : 9783844257502
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis VITTORIA COLONNA by : Maria Dr. Musiol

Experience this female genius live in her presence.

Vittoria Colonna

Vittoria Colonna
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Publisher : The Porcupine's Quill
Total Pages : 68
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ISBN-10 : 9780889843707
ISBN-13 : 0889843708
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis Vittoria Colonna by : Jan Zwicky

The first woman to achieve wide recognition as a poet in Renaissance Italy, Vittoria Colonna was known for her ardent, but also deeply spiritual, verses. This volume reproduces ten of her sonnets in the original Italian alongside new English versions of compelling simplicity, and complements both with a sequence of moving black and white photographs. Governor General’s Award winner Jan Zwicky gives Colonna’s spiritual insights a contemporary voice, while photographer and noted mathematician Robert Moody paces her words against a visual meditation on the Passion story, as conveyed by Subirachs’ sculptures for the basilica of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. The volume’s juxtaposition of poetry and photography illuminates the passion, reverence, and timelessness of both Subirachs’ and Colonna’s work.

Selected Letters, 1523-1546

Selected Letters, 1523-1546
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Total Pages : 216
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ISBN-10 : 1649590288
ISBN-13 : 9781649590282
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis Selected Letters, 1523-1546 by : Vittoria Colonna

Forty revealing personal letters written by a key figure from the Italian Renaissance. The most celebrated woman writer of the Italian Renaissance, Vittoria Colonna was known for her elegant poetry and use of the sonnet form to explore pressing religious questions. The selection of Colonna's letters presented here for the first time in a collected edition was written to and from writers, artists, popes, cardinals, employees, and family members. Together they place Colonna at the center of intersecting epistolary networks as a political actor, theological thinker, literary practitioner, and caring friend. Revealing a historical woman speaking and acting with force in the world, these letters constitute a vital tool for anyone seeking to understand Colonna's literary works. Newly translated, this work reveals new aspects and faces of the most celebrated woman writer of the Italian Renaissance.

Vittoria Colonna

Vittoria Colonna
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Total Pages : 142
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ISBN-10 : UCAL:$B292318
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Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Vittoria Colonna by : Alethea Wiel

Lyric Poetry by Women of the Italian Renaissance

Lyric Poetry by Women of the Italian Renaissance
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Publisher : JHU Press
Total Pages : 473
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ISBN-10 : 9781421408880
ISBN-13 : 1421408880
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis Lyric Poetry by Women of the Italian Renaissance by : Virginia Cox

This is an amazing book, a major achievement in the field of women's studies.--Renaissance Quarterly, reviewing Women's Writing in Italy, 1400-1650

ArtCurious

ArtCurious
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 289
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ISBN-10 : 9780525506409
ISBN-13 : 0525506403
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis ArtCurious by : Jennifer Dasal

A wildly entertaining and surprisingly educational dive into art history as you've never seen it before, from the host of the beloved ArtCurious podcast We're all familiar with the works of Claude Monet, thanks in no small part to the ubiquitous reproductions of his water lilies on umbrellas, handbags, scarves, and dorm-room posters. But did you also know that Monet and his cohort were trailblazing rebels whose works were originally deemed unbelievably ugly and vulgar? And while you probably know the tale of Vincent van Gogh's suicide, you may not be aware that there's pretty compelling evidence that the artist didn't die by his own hand but was accidentally killed--or even murdered. Or how about the fact that one of Andy Warhol's most enduring legacies involves Caroline Kennedy's moldy birthday cake and a collection of toenail clippings? ArtCurious is a colorful look at the world of art history, revealing some of the strangest, funniest, and most fascinating stories behind the world's great artists and masterpieces. Through these and other incredible, weird, and wonderful tales, ArtCurious presents an engaging look at why art history is, and continues to be, a riveting and relevant world to explore.

Michelangelo's Christian Mysticism

Michelangelo's Christian Mysticism
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 269
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ISBN-10 : 9781107043763
ISBN-13 : 110704376X
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis Michelangelo's Christian Mysticism by : Sarah Rolfe Prodan

In this book, Sarah Rolfe Prodan examines the spiritual poetry of Michelangelo in light of three contexts: the Catholic Reformation movement, Renaissance Augustinianism, and the tradition of Italian religious devotion. Prodan combines a literary, historical, and biographical approach to analyze the mystical constructs and conceits in Michelangelo's poems, thereby deepening our understanding of the artist's spiritual life in the context of Catholic Reform in the mid-sixteenth century. Prodan also demonstrates how Michelangelo's poetry is part of an Augustinian tradition that emphasizes mystical and moral evolution of the self. Examining such elements of early modern devotion as prayer, lauda singing, and the contemplation of religious images, Prodan provides a unique perspective on the subtleties of Michelangelo's approach to life and to art. Throughout, Prodan argues that Michelangelo's art can be more deeply understood when considered together with his poetry, which points to a spirituality that deeply informed all of his production.