Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 7
3. List of Illustrations 11
4. Acknowledgements 15
5. Introduction: The Twenty-First Century Vittoria Colonna 17
6. Part 1. Literary and Spiritual Sociability
7. 1. The D’Avalos-Colonna Literary Circle: A ‘Renewed Parnassus' 37
8. 2. Late Love: Vittoria Colonna and Reginald Pole 55
9. Part 2. Widowhood
10. 3. Magistra apostolorum: The Virgin Mary in Birgitta of Sweden and Vittoria Colonna 75
11. 4. Outdoing Colonna: Widowhood Poetry in the Late Cinquecento 95
12. Part 3. Poetry
13. 5. The Epistolary Vittoria 117
14. 6. ‘Ex illo mea, mi Daniel, Victoria pendet’: A Forgotten Spiritual Epigram by Vittoria Colonna 135
15. 7. Religious Desire in the Poetry of Vittoria Colonna : Insights into Early Modern Piety and Poetics 153
16. Part 4. Art
17. 8. ‘Inscribed Upon Their Hearts’: Copying and the Dissemination of Devotion 173
18. 9. Titian, Colonna, and the Gender of Pictorial Devotion 199
19. 10. ‘A More Loving and Constant Heart’: Vittoria Colonna, Alfonso d’Avalos, Michelangelo and the Complicated History of Pontormo’s Noli me tangere 229
20. Part 5. Readership
21. 11. ‘Leading Others on the Road to Salvation’: Vittoria Colonna and Her Readers 273
22. 12. ‘In Competition with and Perhaps More Felicitously Than Petrarch’: The Canonization of Vittoria Colonna in Rinaldo Corso’s Tutte le rime (1558) 291
23. Part 6. Impact
24. 13. Colonna and Petrarch in the Rime of Lucia Colao 309
25. 14. ‘I Take Thee’: Vittoria Colonna, Conjugal Verse and Male poeti colonnesi 331
26. 15. ‘She Showed the World a Beacon of Female Worth’ : Vittoria Colonna in Arcadia 351
27. Volume Bibliography 371
28. Index of Citations of Colonna’s Letters and Verse 399
29. Thematic Index 401