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The sixteenth century was a period of tumultuous religious change
in Italy as in Europe as a whole, a period when movements for both
reform and counter-reform reflected and affected shifting religious
sensibilities. Cinquecento culture was profoundly shaped by these
religious currents, from the reform poetry of the 1530s and early
1540s, to the efforts of Tridentine theologians later in the
century to renew Catholic orthodoxy across cultural life. This
interdisciplinary volume offers a carefully balanced collection of
essays by leading international scholars in the fields of Italian
Renaissance literature, music, history and history of art,
addressing the fertile question of the relationship between
religious change and shifting cultural forms in sixteenth-century
Italy. The contributors to this volume are throughout concerned to
demonstrate how a full understanding of Cinquecento religious
culture might be found as much in the details of the relationship
between cultural and religious developments, as in any grand
narrative of the period. The essays range from the art of Cosimo
I's Florence, to the music of the Confraternities of Rome; from the
private circulation of religious literature in manuscript form, to
the public performances of musical laude in Florence and Tuscany;
from the art of Titian and Tintoretto to the religious poetry of
Vittoria Colonna and Torquato Tasso. The volume speaks of a
Cinquecento in which religious culture was not always at ease with
itself and the broader changes around it, but was nonetheless
vibrant and plural. Taken together, this new and ground-breaking
research makes a major contribution to the development of a more
nuanced understanding of cultural responses to a crucial period of
reform and counter-reform, both within Italy and beyond.
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.
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. Â
The most published and lauded woman writer of early
sixteenth-century Italy, Vittoria Colonna (1490-1547) in effect
defined what was the "acceptable" face of female authorship for her
time. Hailed by the generation's leading male "literati" as an
equal, she was praised both for her impeccable command of
Petrarchan style and for the unimpeachable chastity and piety of
the persona she promoted through her literary works.
This book presents for the very first time a body of Colonna's
verse that reveals much about her poetic aims and outlook, while
also casting new light on one of the most famous friendships of the
age. "Sonnets for Michelangelo," originally presented in manuscript
form to her close friend Michelangelo Buonarroti as a personal
gift, illustrates the striking beauty and originality of Colonna's
mature lyric voice and distinguishes her as a poetic innovator who
would be widely imitated by female writers in Italy and Europe in
the sixteenth century. After three centuries of relative neglect,
this new edition promises to restore Colonna to her rightful place
at the forefront of female cultural production in the
Renaissance.
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