Poetics of Sixteenth-Century Widowhood: Vittoria Colonna’s Use of Gender and Grief as a Means of Social and Spiritual Transcendence
This thesis project surrounds the life of sixteenth-century poet Vittoria Colonna, and the poetry she wrote following the death of her husband Ferrante D’Avalos, Marquis of Pescara, in 1525. Often regarded in tandem with the works of Michelangelo, Vittoria Colonna’s literary accomplishments in the f...
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Scholar Commons
2018
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| Online Access: | https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7278 https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=8475&context=etd |