MSN: Valentine’s Day 2026: Forgotten love letters that shaped history — Michelangelo Buonarroti to Vittoria Colonna
Valentine’s Day 2026: Forgotten love letters that shaped history — Michelangelo Buonarroti to Vittoria Colonna
Ramie Targoff’s Renaissance Woman: The Life of Vittoria Colonna is a biography, but it’s also one of those books that dissects an entire culture. A close friend of Michelangelo, and the first woman ...
Renaissance Woman: The Life of Vittoria Colonna by Ramie Targoff; Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 352 pages “Poetess and friend to Michelangelo” is the descriptive text accompanying a portrait of Vittoria ...
Michelangelo, Da Vinci and Medici are among the most celebrated names of the Italian Renaissance, but in a new book, English professor Ramie Targoff makes the case for including poet Vittoria Colonna ...
A new Clinical Anatomy article presents evidence that Michelangelo inserted his self-portrait into a sketch of his close friend, Vittoria Colonna, which is currently in the collection of the British ...
The Santa Fe New Mexican: Renaissance Woman: "The Life of Vittoria Colonna"
The New York Times: FRIEND OF MICHELANGELO.; VICTORA COLONNA. With Some Account of Her Friends and Her Times. By Maud F. Jerrold. Pp.336. With six illustrations in photogravure. New York: E.P ...
FRIEND OF MICHELANGELO.; VICTORA COLONNA. With Some Account of Her Friends and Her Times. By Maud F. Jerrold. Pp.336. With six illustrations in photogravure. New York: E.P ...
Brandeis University: Who was Vittoria Colonna? Just one of Italy’s great poets.
Targoff (Common Prayer), professor of English and cochair of Italian studies at Brandeis University, paints Vittoria Colonna (1492–1547) as an embodiment of the Italian Renaissance in this enjoyable ...