Sonnets for Michelangelo. A Bilingual Edition

Abstract

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. CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Note on the Translation; Series Editors' Introduction; Volume Editor's Introduction; Volume Editor's Bibliography; Colonna's Sonnets for Michelangelo with English translations on facing pages; Notes; Series Editors' Bibliography; Index of First Lines; General Index.