6/29/2023 0 Comments Vittoria colonna sonnetsFrom the first words of the first sonnet, the raw honesty and power of Colonna’s lines is striking: While this might not seem a very high ratio, and the book may not satisfy completists for that reason, Zwicky has chosen well. Zwicky, who says she came upon Colonna’s work accidentally, has selected ten of the more than one hundred sonnets that make up Colonna’s published Rime Spirituali. Colonna was an intriguing woman who associated with religious reformers and was a close friend of Michelangelo’s. She wrote other forms of poetry, but her later years were marked by meditative religious poems, which came to be known as her rime spirituali. She was a wealthy sixteenth-century woman who sought the refuge of the convent after she was prematurely widowed. Jan Zwicky presents her translations of ten sonnets from Vittoria Colonna’s Rime Spirituali, accompanied by stunning photographs by Robert Moody, in Vittoria Colonna: Selections from the Rime Spirituali.Ĭolonna is not a well-known figure. The raw honesty and power of sixteenth century poet shines through in Zwicky’s translations.
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