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	Vittoria Colonna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vittoria Colonna (1492-1547), marchioness of Pescara, was an Italian noblewoman and poet.
		The daughter of Fabrizio Colonna, grand constable of the kingdom of Naples, and of Agnese da Montefeltro, Vittoria Colonna was born at Marino, a fief of the Colonna family in the Alban Hills near Rome.
		Vittoria, who was hastening to tend him, received the news of his death at Viterbo; she halted and turned off to Rome, and after a brief stay departed for Ischia, where she remained for several years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vittoria_Colonna (583 words)

	Colonna family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Colonna family was a powerful noble family in medieval and renaissance Rome, supplying one pope and many other leaders, and fighting with their rivals the Orsini family for influence.
		The Colonna family (aside from the three brothers allied with the Pope) declared that Boniface had been elected illegally after the unprecedented abdication of Pope Celestine V three years previously.
		Fabrizio Colonna, who was the father of Vittoria Colonna, and a general in the Holy League.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Colonna (411 words)

	VITTORIA COLONNA - LoveToKnow Article on VITTORIA COLONNA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		(1490-1547), marchioness of Pescara, Italian poet, daughter of Fabrizio Colonna, grand constable of the kingdom of Naples, and of Anna da Montefeltro, was born at Marino, a fief of the Colonna family.
		Betrothed when four years old at the instance of Ferdinand, king of Naples, to Ferrante de Avalos, son of the marquis of Pescara, she received the highest education and gave early proof of a love of letters.
		Her life was a beautiful one, and goes far to counteract the impression of the universal corruption of the Italian Renaissance conveyed by such careers as those of the Borgia.
	77.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CO/COLONNA_VITTORIA.htm (522 words)

	Vittorio Colonna
		She was the daughter of Fabrizio Colonna, lord of various Roman fiefs and grand constable of Naples.
		Vittoria earnestly dissuaded him from this scheme, declaring (as her cousin, Cardinal Pompeo Colonna, tells us) that she "preferred to die the wife of a most brave marquis and a most upright general, than to live the consort of a king dishonoured with any stain of infamy".
		Vittoria is undoubtedly greater as a personality than as a poet.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/c/colonna,vittorio.html (510 words)

	Biography: Colonna, Vittoria
		Vittoria Colonna, certainly the most renowned and successful woman writer of her age in Italy, was widely admired by her peers for her impeccable Petrarchan verses and her public image of unimpeachable chastity and piety.
		Colonna herself returned to Ischia, to the court presided over by her aunt by marriage, Costanza D'Avalos, where the well-stocked library and lively court environment probably helped to encourage her own literary aspirations.
		Colonna's poetry is stylistically impeccable, drawing on the Petrarchan linguistic and imitative models recommended by Pietro Bembo and others in the period, but also, particularly in the more mature work, rich, sensuous and innovative in ways that may surprise the uninitiated reader.
	www.lib.uchicago.edu /efts/IWW/BIOS/A0011.html (622 words)

	Pole as Prophet
		Colonna's letters are something of a dilemma to historians since they are filled with complex poetical devices and generally obscure prose.
		In one of his letters, he writes that Vittoria followed "the advice given her by the Cardinal [Pole] in whom she trusted as in an oracle." The conception of the prophet as oracle is a traditional association; predating even the Old Testament and hearkening back to classical Greek and Roman societies.
		Colonna spent many of her last years in Viterbo where Pole was serving as legate.
	www.augustana.edu /library/Special/pole/poleasprophet_fulltext05.html (428 words)

	Pole as Prophet
		Colonna came from one of the oldest and wealthiest of Roman aristocratic families.
		The Colonnas had a tradition of close ties with the papacy; Pope Martin V (1417-1431) was a Colonna.
		Vittoria Colonna, a widow at age thirty-three, had an intense personal spirituality which brought her into contact with many of the most passionate spirituals of the day.
	www.augustana.edu /library/special/pole/poleasprophet_fulltext04.html (379 words)

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		Vittoria occupied herself sedu- lously with culture, and, in so far, was bet- ter off than many other ladies of her day; but she had none of the lighter distrac- tions, or illicit attachments, which, in so many other cases, winged the flight of time and quickened the lonely hours.
		Vittoria Colonna was delighted with the accession of Clement VII.; but she did not foresee the evils which the weak and vacillating bastard of Giuliano dei Medici would bring upon Italy.
		Vittoria Colonna was surrounded by men and women, romantic and pictur- esque, foul and fierce; but they only thro~v out into clearer relief the unsullied purity of her white and stainless soul.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ndlpcoop/nicmoas/livn-2/livn0167.sgm (22182 words)

	Vittoria Colonna
		Vittoria Colonna seems to me unusual--indeed, alone--in this period in her willingness to part with money; but as to all but one of the other of her world's demands, she falls to.
		I will not deny that Vittoria was devoted in the first way--though in a way which was sufficiently unorthodox to attract unsafe rumors, spies and obstacle-makers; she was also mostly devoted in the second, the main exception being that drawn line at more marriages.
		About a quarter of Vittoria' poems are epistolary, numbers of them compelling poems to particular people on particular events; these are highly varied in mood; there are are poems of livid wrath directed at the Pope, of stern dignity to Charles V, of grief over someone's death, of celebration and praise of a fellow-poet's work.
	www.jimandellen.org /Vittoria.html (1861 words)

	Vittoria Colonna e Michelangelo
		The author of highly original and imaginative secular and religious verse and a figure well known to historians of the 16th century, Vittoria Colonna is the subject of a new exhibition at the Casa Buonarroti, Florence (24 May-12 September 2005).
		Vittoria Colonna, the Castle of Ischia and the culture of courts” (Ippolita di Majo) describes Vittoria’s early years in the sophisticated milieu of Neapolitan humanism, a world the feel of which contemporary busts, medals and books attempt to capture.
		“Vittoria Colonna e Michelangelo”; (Vittoria Romani) is dedicated to the intense friendship that developed between the poetess and the artist, resulting in masterpieces such as the Boston Pietà and Christ and the Woman from Samaria.
	www.mandragora.it /english/titles/vittoria1.html (319 words)

	Vittoria Colonna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Vittoria Colonna was one of the the foremost female writers of the Renaissance.
		Overall, Colonna was known for her piety, virtue, and intellect.
		Vittoria had a great reputation, and was praised for her most honorable character.
	www.expage.com /vitcolonna (411 words)

	Vittoria Colonna
		Vittoria Colonna was born into one of the major noble families of Rome.
		At least one drawing of Colonna is by Michelangelo, and several of his images of Mary are believed to be based on her appearance.
		Ten years after Colonna's death, a letter to the Capuchin friar Bernardino Ochino was edited and printed as Pianto sopra la Passione di Cristo (Lamentation on the passion of Christ); the 1557 editors prudently removed all mention of Ochino, who had left Italy in 1542 and joined the followers of Calvin.
	home.infionline.net /~ddisse/colonna.html (3584 words)

	Vittoria Colonna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Daughter of the famous captain, Fabrizio Colonna, Vittoria was born in 1490 at Marino on Colli Albani, near Rome, her family feud.
		Vittoria shared with Valdes the idea of a Lutheran spiritual reform without considering however drastic breaking with the Roman Church.
		Vittoria entered the legend as a rare female voice of the Renaissance poetry, for her innovating spirit.
	www.fva.is /harpa/comenius/it_vittoria.html (296 words)

	AllRefer.com - Colonna (Italian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Despite its antipapal attitude, the family produced in Pope Martin V (Oddone Colonna) one of the most successful advocates of papal authority.
		His daughter was Vittoria Colonna (see separate article).
		Marcantonio Colonna, 1535–84, duke of Paliano, commanded the papal forces in the battle of Lepanto (1571) against the Turks.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/Colonna.html (342 words)

	VITTORIA COLONNA AND MICHELANGELO
		Moreover, Vittoria Colonna, daughter of Agnesina di Montefeltro, was also the niece of the Dukes of Urbino, Guidubaldo di Montefeltro and Elisabetta Gonzaga, emblematic figures in Baldassarre Castiglione's Cortegiano, the literary masterpiece of that courtly culture in whose lengthy gestation Vittoria was directly involved.
		At the end of the third decade of the century, Vittoria Colonna turned to one of Sanzio's pupils when she commissioned from Giovan Francesco Penni, brought to Naples by Vittoria's powerful and dearly loved cousin, Alfonso d'Avalos, a copy of Raphael's Transfiguration which the Marchioness donated to the Naples Ospedale degli Incurabili.
		This was the context within which Vittoria commissioned in parallel two pictures of Mary Magdalen, applying - through the offices of her cousin Alfonso d'Avalos, then General Captain of the Imperial army in Italy - to the two most acclaimed masters of the time: Titian and Michelangelo.
	www.yourwaytoflorence.com /vittoria.htm (509 words)

	AllRefer.com - Colonna, Vittoria, marchesa di Pescara (Italian Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Colonna, Vittoria, marchesa di Pescara, Italian Literature, Biographies
		Colonna, Vittoria, marchesa di Pescara[vEtO´rEA kOlOn´nA mArkA´zA dE pAskA´rA] Pronunciation Key, 1492–1547, Italian poet; daughter of Fabrizio Colonna.
		Her love for her husband, Ferrante d'Avalos, is the subject of part of her lamenting verse.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/ColonnaV.html (223 words)

	Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution Proceedings vol.8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The speaker began by with an account of how her interest in Vittoria Colonna was aroused by a visit she made to an islet, the Castello Aragonese off the larger island of Ischia.
		Michelangelo met Vittoria Colonna in Rome in about 1538, when he was almost sixty, and she was forty-five.
		Vittoria Colonna showed a great admiration for Michelangelo’s talents, while he was apparently overwhelmed by her and became devoted to her.
	www.brlsi.org /proceed04/poetry200406.htm (1084 words)

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		And the important portraits of Vittoria painted by Sebastiano del Piombo, the first one in 1520 and the second one in 1530.
		The third section illustrates the restless religiousness of Vittoria Colonna and the relationships with people that she met in her life.
		Some of these are on show in this exhibition: the letter to Vittoria Colonna in rome with poetry, written by Michelangelo in 1540; and the letter to Michelangelo in Rome, that Vittoria wrote in 1560.
	www.firenzealbergo.it /dettaglio_news.aspx?IDN=39 (442 words)

	Vittoria Colonna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		(Vittoria and Ferrante corresponded in the most passionate terms both in prose and verse.
		(for Ferrante was one of the most active and brilliant captains of Charles V; but Vittoria's influence was sufficient to keep him from joining the projected league against the emperor after the battle of Pavia[For more facts and a topic of this subject, click this link] (1525), EHandler: no quick summary.
		(but T Roscoe's Vittoria Colonna (London, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/v/vi/vittoria_colonna.htm (1665 words)

	Città di Vittoria - English
		Vittoria founded at the beginning of the 17th century was the last of the settlements of the old County of Modica that covered much of the territory now belonging to the Province of Ragusa.
		In this specific case, it turned out to be an intelligent long-term investment suggested by a few county administrators to the feudatory, the Countess Vittoria Colonna (1558-1633) teacher of the son of the Count of Modica, Giovanni Alfonso Enriques Cabrera (1596-1647).
		Considered valuable are the statues (works of Corrado Leone), the gildings (of Cappellani) and overall the paintings of Giuseppe Mazzone (1838-1880), true glory of Vittoria, who decorated the medallions depicting the great musicians, the ceiling in the hall and the figures of the proscenium ("The Tradegy" and "The Commedy").
	www.comune.vittoria.rg.it /Inglese/inglese.htm (3638 words)

	Colonna, Vittoria: Sonnets for Michelangelo
		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.
	www.press.uchicago.edu /cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/151365.ctl (237 words)

	Chronology for Catholic Reformation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Vittoria Colonna marries Ferrante Francesco d'Avalos, a Spanish noble.
		Vittoria Colonna enters the Convent of San Silvestro in Rome.
		Vittoria Colonna enters the convent of San Caterina at Viterbo.
	cat.xula.edu /tpr/timelines/catholic (620 words)

	Italy Magazine - Focus on Tuscany - News, holiday, property, food and drink
		The exhibition, ‘Vittoria Colonna and Michelangelo’, which opened at the Casa Buonarroti in Florence back in March, and continues until the 12th of September, is a small but exceptionally enlightening affair, whose primary objective is to bring to wider prominence this key figure of the late Renaissance literary world.
		The lay-out of the show, too, does far more justice to the true historical figure of Vittoria, divided up as it is into four sections (and, conveniently, four rooms), each highlighting a different facet of her life and work with a richly varied display of paintings, drawings, medals, coins, books, letters and poems.
		She was a poet of considerable and sophisticated talent, highly regarded by her contemporaries, both male and female, who took centre stage in the volatile religious debates of the sixteenth-century and who inspired and was in turn inspired by one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance.
	www.italymag.co.uk /italy_regions/tuscany/2005/events/victorvittoria (945 words)

	Vittoria da Colonna : Poems and Biography
		Vittoria da Colonna was a close friend of Michelangelo and benefactress to many poets and artists of the Italian Renaissance.
		When her husband died in 1525, she retired to live mostly in convents, writing poems on religion and spiritual experience.
		Contains a section on the friendship between Michelangelo and Vittoria Colonna.
	www.poetry-chaikhana.com /D/daColonnaVit (146 words)

	ViviToscana ::: Vittoria muse of Michelangelo :::
		The new exhibition opening at the Buonarroti house is entitled Vittoria Colonna and Michelangelo and based on the deep platonic friendship between Michelangelo and Vittoria Colonna, Marquise of Pescara (1490-1547), which has always fascinated historians.
		The exhibition illustrates the various aspects of Vittoria Colonna’s life, her ideas and personality, reconstructing the Humanistic environment in Naples, where Vittoria was brought up and educated, and its connections with all the most important courts in Italy, from Mantua to Milan, Ferrara, Urbino and Venice, encouraging the circulation of art and literarature.
		In her youth Vittoria, related to the Dukes of Urbino, Montefeltro and the Gonzagas, often stayed at the Castle of Ischia, the property of the Avalos family and, in fact, in 1509, married Francesco Ferrante d'Avalos to whom she had been betrothed from childhood.
	www.vivitoscana.net /cgi-bin/news/gi_pub3_det_lun.cgi?id=322&sezione=culture (472 words)

	Italian D.O.C. Wines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The same area is the source of the great wines of Vittoria, a commune founded at the beginning of the 18th century at the initiative of Vittoria Colonna, Countess of Modica.
		The "struggle" between other fruits and vegetables on one hand and the vine on the other was finally resolved about 20 years ago, when the surface area devoted to grapes stabilized at about 7,000 hectares after major fluctuations earlier in the century.
		The Cerasuolo di Vittoria is produced from the vinification of red Frappato grapes and was first presented in 1933 at the initial Exhibition-Market of Siena.
	www.milioni.com /vini/ingd1/460.htm (405 words)

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