Vittoria Colonna (1490?–1547) was a significant female voice in the Italian Renaissance. Ramie Targoff is professor of English, cochair of Italian studies, and the Jehuda Reinharz Director of the Mandel Center for the Humanities at Brandeis University. She is the author of Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England; John Donne, Body and Soul; and Posthumous Love: Eros and the Afterlife in Renaissance England, all published by the University of Chicago Press. Her most recent book is Renaissance Woman: The Life of Vittoria Colonna. Troy Tower is associate lecturer of Italian at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He has coedited the poetry of Colonna’s contemporary, Gaspara Stampa.

“A full translation of Colonna’s Rime is very much awaited by students and scholars all over the world. . . . Targoff writes with a rare enthusiasm and sophistication, drawing her readers through Colonna’s rich life—her friendships, love, widowhood, literary ambitions, religious yearnings—while being both fascinatingly accessible and editorially innovative."

• AcknowledgmentsIllustrationsIntroductionThe Other VoicePublishing Vittoria Colonna: The 1538 RimeLife and Works of Vittoria ColonnaThe Amorous Verse of the 1538 EditionSpiritual Verse in the 1538 Edition and BeyondPosthumous Reputation and InfluenceA Note on This Translation and EditionPoems of Widowhood: The 1538 RimeSonetti / SonnetsCanzoni / SongsCritical ApparatusConcordance of Numbering SystemsBibliographyIndex of First LinesGeneral Index

Vittoria Colonna (1490?–1547) was a significant female voice in the Italian Renaissance. Ramie Targoff is professor of English, cochair of Italian studies, and the Jehuda Reinharz Director of the Mandel Center for the Humanities at Brandeis University. She is the author of Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England; John Donne, Body and Soul; and Posthumous Love: Eros and the Afterlife in Renaissance England, all published by the University of Chicago Press. Her most recent book is Renaissance Woman: The Life of Vittoria Colonna. Troy Tower is associate lecturer of Italian at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He has coedited the poetry of Colonna’s contemporary, Gaspara Stampa.

“A full translation of Colonna’s Rime is very much awaited by students and scholars all over the world. . . . Targoff writes with a rare enthusiasm and sophistication, drawing her readers through Colonna’s rich life—her friendships, love, widowhood, literary ambitions, religious yearnings—while being both fascinatingly accessible and editorially innovative."

• AcknowledgmentsIllustrationsIntroductionThe Other VoicePublishing Vittoria Colonna: The 1538 RimeLife and Works of Vittoria ColonnaThe Amorous Verse of the 1538 EditionSpiritual Verse in the 1538 Edition and BeyondPosthumous Reputation and InfluenceA Note on This Translation and EditionPoems of Widowhood: The 1538 RimeSonetti / SonnetsCanzoni / SongsCritical ApparatusConcordance of Numbering SystemsBibliographyIndex of First LinesGeneral Index

Vittoria Colonna (1490?–1547) was a significant female voice in the Italian Renaissance. Ramie Targoff is professor of English, cochair of Italian studies, and the Jehuda Reinharz Director of the Mandel Center for the Humanities at Brandeis University. She is the author of Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England; John Donne, Body and Soul; and Posthumous Love: Eros and the Afterlife in Renaissance England, all published by the University of Chicago Press. Her most recent book is Renaissance Woman: The Life of Vittoria Colonna. Troy Tower is associate lecturer of Italian at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He has coedited the poetry of Colonna’s contemporary, Gaspara Stampa.

“A full translation of Colonna’s Rime is very much awaited by students and scholars all over the world. . . . Targoff writes with a rare enthusiasm and sophistication, drawing her readers through Colonna’s rich life—her friendships, love, widowhood, literary ambitions, religious yearnings—while being both fascinatingly accessible and editorially innovative."

• AcknowledgmentsIllustrationsIntroductionThe Other VoicePublishing Vittoria Colonna: The 1538 RimeLife and Works of Vittoria ColonnaThe Amorous Verse of the 1538 EditionSpiritual Verse in the 1538 Edition and BeyondPosthumous Reputation and InfluenceA Note on This Translation and EditionPoems of Widowhood: The 1538 RimeSonetti / SonnetsCanzoni / SongsCritical ApparatusConcordance of Numbering SystemsBibliographyIndex of First LinesGeneral Index