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Book SynopsisVittoria 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.
Trade Review“This volume gathers together much essential information that a scholar would wish to have at hand, including Colonna’s biography, thorough accounts of early editions of her poetry, a catalogue of known portraits, and the record of Michelangelo’s presentation drawings. But this is no mere handbook. The volume holds much that will be novel and engaging for even the most dedicated Colonna scholar.” Shannon McHugh, University of Massachusetts. In: Early Modern Women, Vol. 14, No. 2 (2020), pp. 179–182.
Table of ContentsNotes on Editors and Contributors List of Figures Timeline: Vittoria Colonna in Context Note on the Text Bibliographical Abbreviations Part I: Vittoria Colonna: Life and Letters Introduction Abigail Brundin, Tatiana Crivelli, and Maria Serena Sapegno Chapter 1: Vittoria Colonna’s Epistolary Works Adriana Chemello Part II: The Poetry Chapter 2: Vittoria Colonna in Manuscript Abigail Brundin Chapter 3: The Print Tradition of Vittoria Colonna’s Rime Tatiana Crivelli Chapter 4: The Rime: A Textual Conundrum? Maria Serena Sapegno Chapter 5: Vittoria Colonna and Language Helena Sanson Part III: Vittoria Colonna and the Arts Chapter 6: Vittoria Colonna: The Pictorial Evidence Gaudenz Freuler Chapter 7: Colonna and Michelangelo: Drawings and Paintings Maria Forcellino Chapter 8: Musical Settings of the Rime Anne Piéjus Part IV: Vittoria Colonna and Religion Chapter 9: Prudential Friendship and Religious Reform: Vittoria Colonna and Gasparo Contarini Stephen Bowd Chapter 10: Vittoria Colonna and Bernardino Ochino Emidio Campi Chapter 11: Religious Prose Writings Eleonora Carinci Part V: Vittoria Colonna as Literary Model and Authority Figure Chapter 12: The Lyric Voices of Vittoria Colonna and the Women of the Giolito Anthologies, 1545–1559 Diana Robin Chapter 13: The Exemplary Vittoria Colonna Virginia Cox Bibliography Index
