Vittoria Colonna

Virginia Cox is Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. Her books include Women’s Writing in Italy, 1400–1650 (2008), The Prodigious Muse: Women’s Writing in Counter-Reformation Italy (2011), Lyric Poetry by Women of the Italian Renaissance (2013) and A Short History of the Italian Renaissance (2015). Shannon McHugh is Associate Professor of Italian and French at University of Massachusetts Boston. She is co-translator of Writings on the Sisters of San Luca and Their Miraculous Madonna (Iter Press, 2015) and co-editor of Innovation in the Italian Counter-Reformation (University of Delaware Press, 2020) and Vittoria Colonna: Poetry, Religion, Art, Impact (Amsterdam University Press, 2021).

• List of Illustrations, Acknowledgements, Introduction: The Twenty-First Century Vittoria Colonna - Virginia Cox, Part 1 Literary and Spiritual Sociability, 1. The D'Avalos-Colonna Literary Circle: A 'Renewed Parnassus' - Shulamit Furstenberg-Levi, 2. Late Love: Vittoria Colonna and Reginald Pole - Ramie Targoff, Part 2 Widowhood, 3. Magistra apostolorum: The Virgin Mary in Birgitta of Sweden and Vittoria Colonna - Unn Falkeid, 4. Outdoing Colonna: Widowhood Poetry in the Late Cinquecento - Anna Wainwright, Part 3 Poetry, 5. The Epistolary Vittoria - Maria Serena Sapegno, 6. 'Ex illo mea, mi Daniel, Victoria pendet' : A Forgotten Spiritual Epigram by Vittoria Colonna - Veronica Copello, 7. Religious Desire in the Poetry of Vittoria Colonna : Insights into Early Modern Piety and Poetics - Sarah Rolfe Prodan, Part 4 Art, 8. 'Inscribed Upon Their Hearts': Copying and the Dissemination of Devotion - Jessica Maratsos, 9. Titian, Colonna, and the Gender of Pictorial Devotion - Christopher J. Nygren, 10. 'A More Loving and Constant Heart' : Vittoria Colonna, Alfonso d'Avalos, Michelangelo and the Complicated History of Pontormo's Noli me tangere - Dennis Geronimus, Part 5 Readership, 11. 'Leading Others on the Road to Salvation' : Vittoria Colonna and Her Readers - Abigail Brundin, 12. 'In Competition with and Perhaps More Felicitously Than Petrarch' : The Canonization of Vittoria Colonna in Rinaldo Corso's Tutte le rime (1558) - Humberto Gonzalez Chavez, Part 6 Impact, 13. Colonna and Petrarch in the Rime of Lucia Colao - Andrea Torre, 14. 'I Take Thee': Vittoria Colonna, Conjugal Verse and Male poeti colonnesi - Shannon McHugh, 15. 'She Showed the World a Beacon of Female Worth' : Vittoria Colonna in Arcadia - Tatiana Crivelli, Volume Bibliography, Index of Citations of Colonna's Letters and Verse, Thematic Index.