Colonna, Vittoria | Dennis J. McAuliffe (essay date 1996)
Dennis J. McAuliffe (essay date 1996)
SOURCE: McAuliffe, Dennis J. “The Language of Spiritual Renewal in the Poetry of Pre-Tridentine Rome: The Case of Vittoria Colonna as Advocate for Reform.” II Veltro 40, Nos. 1-2 (1996): 196-99.
[In the following essay, McAuliffe argues that Colonna's calls for reform of the Church may have been more pointed than acknowledged by previous critics, showing evidence in several of her sonnets.]
Carlo Ossola has written eloquently about Vittoria Colonna's spirituality in his introduction to Juan de Valdés' Lo Evangelio di San Matteo (Roma: Bulzoni, 1985, pp. 82 ff.). His concern is the expression of Valdesian spirituality in her Canzoniere. He calls it an “esemplare testimonianza … [della] decisiva congiunzione, per la cultura italiana del Cinquecento, tra neoplatonismo estetico ed ‘hesuchisme’ religioso” (loc. cit.). Ossola's historical reference points are the early...
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