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).

• Introduction Acknowledgments PART I 1.The People’s Petrarch: Early Modern Italian Readers and the Gender of Celebrity 2.Context: Men and Women in Dialogue in Late-Renaissance Italy PART II 1.Ventriloquized Lyric 2.Correspondence Lyric 3.Religious Lyric 4.Conjugal Lyric Afterword

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).

• Introduction Acknowledgments PART I 1.The People’s Petrarch: Early Modern Italian Readers and the Gender of Celebrity 2.Context: Men and Women in Dialogue in Late-Renaissance Italy PART II 1.Ventriloquized Lyric 2.Correspondence Lyric 3.Religious Lyric 4.Conjugal Lyric Afterword

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).

• Introduction Acknowledgments PART I 1.The People’s Petrarch: Early Modern Italian Readers and the Gender of Celebrity 2.Context: Men and Women in Dialogue in Late-Renaissance Italy PART II 1.Ventriloquized Lyric 2.Correspondence Lyric 3.Religious Lyric 4.Conjugal Lyric Afterword