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Renaissance Woman - The Life of Vittoria Colonna (Hardcover)
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Renaissance Woman - The Life of Vittoria Colonna (Hardcover)
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Ramie Targoffs 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.
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