Vittoria Colonna

Rime Amorose

Lyric poems expressing romantic and erotic love with emotional depth and grace

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Vittoria Colonna
Vittoria Colonna

Italian Renaissance poet and the only woman whose work Michelangelo is known to have admired. Her religious Rime Spirituali and love poetry for her dead husband show depth and intelligence.

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