Fregoso, Ottaviano
Galileo
Gambara, Veronica
Gardiner, Stephen
Genazzano
Geneva
Genoa
George, Duke of Clarence
Germany; mercenaries
Gheri, Cosimo
Ghibellines
Giberti, Gian Matteo
Giolito, Gabriele
Giovio, Paolo; Notable Men and Women of Our Time
Gonzaga, Cardinal Ercole
Gonzaga, Eleonora
Gonzaga, Elisabetta
Gonzaga, Federico I
Gonzaga, Federico II
Gonzaga, Francesco II
Gonzaga, Giulia
Gonzaga, Luigia
Gonzaga family
Gregory XIII, Pope
grotesques
Gualteruzzi, Carlo
Guelphs
Guicciardini, Francesco
Guicciardini, Luigi, The Sack of Rome
Guidiccioni, Giovanni
Harding, Thomas
Henry II, King of Navarre
Henry VII, King of England
Henry VIII, King of England
Hernández, Francisca
Hollanda, Francisco de; On Antique Painting
holy anorexia
Holy Roman Empire
Honorius IV, Pope
Horace
horses
Huguenots
humanism
Hungary
hunting
Ignatius of Loyola
Index of Forbidden Books
Inquisition; archives; file on Vittoria; Roman; Spanish
Ischia
Italian Wars
Italy; courts; publishing; reform movement; Salt War; wars with France; see also specific cities and regions
Jacques of Vitry
James the Greater, Saint
Jerusalem, pilgrimages to
Jesuits
jewelry
Jews
Joanna of Castille
John, Gospel of
John Paul II, Pope
jousting tournaments
Julius II, Pope
Julius III, Pope
Knights of St. John of Jerusalem
Landknechts
Lannoy, Charles de
Latin
Laurentian Library, Florence
League of Cognac
Leitch, William Leighton, Etching of Castello d’Ischia
Leonardo da Vinci; The Last Supper; Mona Lisa
Leo X, Pope
Lepanto, Battle of
Lily, George
Lippi, Filippino
literacy
Lombardy
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, Michael Angelo
Louis XII, King of France
Lucca
Lucius III, Pope
Luke, Gospel of
Luther, Martin
Lutheranism
Machiavelli, Niccolò; The Art of War; The Prince
Madrid
Madruzzo, Cardinal Cristoforo
Maggio, Don Tomasso
Mantua
Marcellus II, Pope
Margaret of Austria
Margherita
Marguerite de Navarre; The Mirror of the Sinful Soul; Vittoria and
Marino; razing of castle
Marot, Clément
Martinengo, Fortunato
Martin V, Pope
Mary I, Queen of England
Mary Magdalene
Matthew, Gospel of
Maxentius, Emperor
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
medals
Medici, Alessandro di Lorenzo de’
Medici, Cosimo il Vecchio de’
Medici, Cosimo I de’
Medici, Giovanni di Lorenzo de’, see Leo X, Pope
Medici, Giuliano di Lorenzo de’
Medici, Giulio di Giuliano de’, see Clement VII, Pope
Medici, Ippolito de’
Medici, Lorenzo de’
Medici, Lorenzo II de’
Medici, Ludovico di Giovanni de’
Medici family
Melanchthon, Philip
Michelangelo Buonarroti; Christ on the Cross; drawings for Vittoria; fame of; The Last Judgment; letters to Vittoria; Magdalene drawing; Pauline frescoes; Pietà; poetry by; “The Rape of Ganymede”; religious views; Sistine Chapel; Vittoria and
Milan
Minturno
Modena
Moncada, Hugo of
Montaigne, Michel de
Montefeltro, Agnese de
Montefeltro, Federico da
Montefeltro, Guidobaldo
Montefeltro, Oddantonio da
Montefeltro, Sveva da
Montefeltro family
Montmorency, Anne de
Morone, Giovanni
Morone, Girolamo
Muscettola, Giovanni
music
Musso, Cornelio
Naples; society
Napoleon Bonaparte
Negri, Francesco
Nemi
Neoplatonism
Nero, Emperor
Nettuno
Ninety-Five Theses
nunneries, see convents
Ochino, Bernardino
Order of the Garter
Orsini family
Orvieto
Ovid
Padua
paganism
Pagano, Sergio
Palazzo Colonna
Palazzo de’ Cesarini
Palazzo Farnese
Palazzo Madama
Palazzo Pitti
Palazzo Schifanoia
Palestrina
Paliano
Paludanus, Peter
Pannartz, Arnold
papacy; nepotism; see also Catholicism; specific popes; Vatican
Papal States
Paris
Parma
Parr, Katherine
Pascal; Pensées
Paul, Saint; Epistles of
Pauline Chapel
Paul III, Pope; Salt War and
Paul IV, Pope
Pavia; Battle of
Perugia
Pescara
Peter, Saint
Petrarch; Canzoniere; influence on Vittoria
Philip II, King of Spain
Piacenza
Piccolomini, Alfonso
Piccolomini, Cardinal Giovanni
Piccolomini, Costanza d’Avalos
Piero della Francesca
pilgrimages; to Holy Land
piracy
Pirogallo, Filippo
Pisa
Pius V, Pope
Plato; Symposium
Platonism
Plautus; The Menaechmi
Plethon, George Gemistos
Plotinus
Plutarch, Life of Marcus Brutus
poetry by Vittoria Colonna; commentary on; farewell to; manuscript copies; Michelangelo and; multiple editions; Petrarchan model; political sonnets; publication of; Rime; sonnets to Ferrante; spiritual sonnets
Poland
Pole, Margaret
Pole, Reginald; De unitate; Vittoria and
Pontormo, Jacopo; Magdalene painting for Vittoria
Poor Clares
predestination
Priuli, Alvise
Protestantism; Reformation; Vittoria and
Psalms
Ptolemy
publishing; binding; compositors; copyright; distribution of books; female poets; manuscript copies; multiple editions; pirated editions; printing press; selling of books; of Vittoria’s poetry
Pucci, Antonio
Quinternus file
Quirinal Hill
Rabelais, François
Ranieri, Concetta
Raphael; Fire in the Borgo; portrait of Elisabetta Gonzaga; portrait of Guidobaldo da Montefeltro; portrait of Pope Leo X
Ratzinger, Joseph, see Benedict XVI, Pope
Ravenna, Battle of
reform, religious
; Reformation
Reform Commission
Regnaut, Anthoine
relics
Renée of France
Reumont, Alfred von
Richard III, King of England
Rocca di Papa
Rome; bookshops; Inquisition; Jewish ghetto; relationship of Vittoria and Michelangelo in; Sack of
Rovere, Francesco della, see Sixtus IV, Pope
Rullo, Donato
Sack of Rome
Sadoleto, Iacopo
Saint Bartholomew’s Day massacre
Saint Maximin
Saint Peter’s, Rome
Salmerón, Alfonso
Salt War
San Benedetto monastery
San Domenico Maggiore
Sangallo the Younger, Antonio da
San Silvestro al Quirinale, Rome
San Silvestro in Capite
Santa Caterina di Siena
Santa Caterina in Viterbo
Sant’Anna in Rome
Santiago de Compostela
Sappho
Savonarola, Giralomo
Scholastica, Saint
Sebastiano del Piombo
Sforza, Battista
Sforza, Bona
Sforza, Costanzo
Sforza, Francesco II
Sforza, Gian Galeazzo Maria
Sforza, Giovanni
Sforza, Ludovico
Sforza family
Shakespeare, William; The Comedy of Errors; Henry IV; King Lear; Macbeth; Much Ado About Nothing; Richard III
Siena
Sigismund I of Poland
Sixtus IV, Pope
Sixtus V, Pope
Socrates
sola fide
sonnet form; Petrarchan model; Shakespearean
Soranzo, Vettor
Soubise, Madame de
Spain; alumbrados; Inquisition; Sack of Rome and
spirituali movement
sprezzatura
Stampa, Gaspara
Subiaco
Suetonius
Suleiman the Magnificent
Sweynheym, Konrad
Switzerland
Tarabotti, Arcangela; Monastic Hell; Paternal Tyranny
Tasso, Bernardo
Terracina, Laura
Titian; Magdalene paintings; The Pentinent Magdalene; portrait of Federico II Gonzaga; portrait of Isabella d’Este
Toledo, Don García de
Tolomei, Claudio
Tolomei, Lattanzio
Torquato; Gerusalemme liberata
Trajan
Trajan’s column
Tunisia
Turks
Urbino; court
Valdés, Juan de; The Christian Alphabet; Dialogue on Christian Doctrine
Valgrisi, Vincenzo
Varchi, Benedetto
Vasari, Giorgio; Lives of the Artists
Vatican; Library; Palace; Pauline Chapel; Secret Archive
Vatican II
Vecellio, Cesare
Velletri
Veneto, Bartolomeo, portrait of Lucrezia Borgia
Venice; salt trade
vernacular language
Viani, Alessandro
Villamarino, Isabella
Viotti, Antonio
Virgin Mary
Visconti, Gian Galeazzo
Viterbo; Vittoria in
War of the Roses
Wolsey, Sir Thomas
women, in alumbrados movement; convent life; courtesans; dowries of; on horseback; literacy; mourning; poets; widowhood
Yeats, William Butler, “The People”
Zápolya, Barbara
Zoppino, il (Nicolò di Aristotile)
Zwingli, Ulrich
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
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ALSO BY RAMIE TARGOFF
Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England
John Donne, Body and Soul
Posthumous Love: Eros and the Afterlife in Renaissance England
A Note About the Author
Ramie Targoff is a professor of English, the cochair of the Italian studies program, and the Jehuda Reinharz Director of the Mandel Center for the Humanities at Brandeis University. She is the author of Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England; John Donne, Body and Soul; and Posthumous Love: Eros and the Afterlife in Renaissance England. She lives with her husband and son in Cambridge, Massachusetts. You can sign up for email updates here.
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CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
DEDICATION
INTRODUCTION: IN SEARCH OF VITTORIA COLONNA
1. THE VIEW FROM THE CLIFF
2. DONNING WIDOW’S WEEDS
3. LONGING FOR THE NUNNERY
4. BECOMING A POET
5. THE SACK OF ROME
6. LIFE AT COURT
7. AMONG PREACHERS AND PILGRIMS
8. HIDDEN HERETICS
9. THE POWER OF PRINT
10. MICHELANGELO IN LOVE
11. SALT WAR
12. LATE LOVE
13. LAST RITES
CONCLUSION: IN THE ARCHIVE OF THE INQUISITION
COLOR PLATES
NOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
ALSO BY RAMIE TARGOFF
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
COPYRIGHT
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* A2.1: “Mai venia peregrin da cui novella / non cercassi saper, cosa per cosa, / per far la mente mia gioiosa e bella, / quando, ad un punto, il scoglio dove posa / il corpo mio, che già lo spirto è teco, / vidi coprir di nebbia tenebrosa, / e l’aria tutta mi pareva un speco / di caligine nera”; “piangeano le sirene e li delfini, / i pesci ancor.”
* A2.1: “Se vittoria volevi io t’era a presso, / ma tu, lasciando me, lasciasti lei”; “Seguir si deve il sposo dentro e fora, / e s’egli pate affanno ella patisca, / e lieto lieta, e se vi more mora”; “Tu vivi lieto, e non hai doglia alcuna, / ché, pensando di fama il novo acquisto, / non curi farmi del tuo amor digiuna.”
* A1.30: “Sterili i corpi fur, l’alme feconde; / il suo valor qui col mio nome unito / mi fan pur madre di sua chiara prole, / la qual vive immortal.”
* Canzoniere 364: “Tennemi Amor anni ventuno ardendo, / lieto nel foco, et nel duol: pien di speme; / poi che madonna e ’l mio cor seco inseme / saliro al ciel, dieci altri anni piangendo.”
† Canzoniere 328: “Rimanetevi in pace, o cari amici. / Qui mai più no, ma rivedremne altrove.”
* “Voi ch’ascoltate in rime sparse il suono / di quei sospiri ond’io nudriva ’l core / in sul mio primo giovenile errore.”
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