Vittoria

Author : Ramie Targoff
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374713847
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Renaissance Woman written by Ramie Targoff and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Vittoria Colonna, confidante of Michelangelo, scion of one of the most powerful families of her era, and a pivotal figure in the Italian Renaissance Ramie Targoff’s Renaissance Woman tells of the most remarkable woman of the Italian Renaissance: Vittoria Colonna, Marchesa of Pescara. Vittoria has long been celebrated by scholars of Michelangelo as the artist’s best friend—the two of them exchanged beautiful letters, poems, and works of art that bear witness to their intimacy—but she also had close ties to Charles V, Pope Clement VII and Pope Paul III, Pietro Bembo, Baldassare Castiglione, Pietro Aretino, Queen Marguerite de Navarre, Reginald Pole, and Isabella d’Este, among others. Vittoria was the scion of an immensely powerful family in Rome during that city’s most explosively creative era. Art and literature flourished, but political and religious life were under terrific strain. Personally involved with nearly every major development of this period—through both her marriage and her own talents—Vittoria was not only a critical political actor and negotiator but also the first woman to publish a book of poems in Italy, an event that launched a revolution for Italian women’s writing. Vittoria was, in short, at the very heart of what we celebrate when we think about sixteenth-century Italy; through her story the Renaissance comes to life anew.

Author : Maria Fletcher Roscoe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vittoria Colonna written by Maria Fletcher Roscoe and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : M.F. Jerrold
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 5876548642
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vittoria Colonna written by M.F. Jerrold and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1906 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Adolphus Trollope
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life of Vittoria Colonna written by Thomas Adolphus Trollope and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 32 pages
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Download or read book United States of America V. Vittoria written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marie-Henri Beyle Stendhal
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473379911
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vittoria Accoramboni written by Marie-Henri Beyle Stendhal and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a famous noble women and her brutal assassination in renaissance Italy.

Author : George Meredith
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465603719
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vittoria (Complete) written by George Meredith and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1910 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Monte Motterone you survey the Lombard plain. It is a towering dome of green among a hundred pinnacles of grey and rust-red crags. At dawn the summit of the mountain has an eagle eye for the far Venetian boundary and the barrier of the Apennines; but with sunrise come the mists. The vast brown level is seen narrowing in; the Ticino and the Sesia waters, nearest, quiver on the air like sleepy lakes; the plain is engulphed up to the high ridges of the distant Southern mountain range, which lie stretched to a faint cloud-like line, in shape like a solitary monster of old seas crossing the Deluge. Long arms of vapour stretch across the urn-like valleys, and gradually thickening and swelling upward, enwrap the scored bodies of the ashen-faced peaks and the pastures of the green mountain, till the heights become islands over a forgotten earth. Bells of herds down the hidden run of the sweet grasses, and a continuous leaping of its rivulets, give the Motterone a voice of youth and homeliness amid that stern company of Titan-heads, for whom the hawk and the vulture cry. The storm has beaten at them until they have got the aspect of the storm. They take colour from sunlight, and are joyless in colour as in shade. When the lower world is under pushing steam, they wear the look of the revolted sons of Time, fast chained before scornful heaven in an iron peace. Day at last brings vigorous fire; arrows of light pierce the mist-wreaths, the dancing draperies, the floors of vapour; and the mountain of piled pasturages is seen with its foot on the shore of Lago Maggiore. Down an extreme gulf the full sunlight, as if darting on a jewel in the deeps, seizes the blue-green lake with its isles. The villages along the darkly-wooded borders of the lake show white as clustered swans; here and there a tented boat is visible, shooting from terraces of vines, or hanging on its shadow. Monte Boscero is unveiled; the semicircle of the Piedmontese and the Swiss peaks, covering Lake Orta, behind, on along the Ticinese and the Grisons, leftward toward and beyond the Lugano hills, stand bare in black and grey and rust-red and purple. You behold a burnished realm of mountain and plain beneath the royal sun of Italy. In the foreground it shines hard as the lines of an irradiated Cellini shield. Farther away, over middle ranges that are soft and clear, it melts, confusing the waters with hot rays, and the forests with darkness, to where, wavering in and out of view like flying wings, and shadowed like wings of archangels with rose and with orange and with violet, silverwhite Alps are seen. You might take them for mystical streaming torches on the border-ground between vision and fancy. They lean as in a great flight forward upon Lombardy.

Author : Thomas Adolphus Trollope
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Decade of Italian Women: St. Catherine of Siena. Caterina Sforza. Vittoria Colonna written by Thomas Adolphus Trollope and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mrs. Henry Roscoe
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vittoria Colonna written by Mrs. Henry Roscoe and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Abigail Brundin
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004322337
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Vittoria Colonna written by Abigail Brundin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-09-07 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Vittoria Colonna offers a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary vision of this important writer of the Italian renaissance, whose influence extended far beyond her own century.