Snag Your Copy A Companion To Vittoria Colonna Scripted By Abigail Brundin Readily Available As Interactive EBook

Colonnawas the genre defining secular woman writer of Renaissance Italy whose literary model helped to establish a decorous and wholly assimilated voice for women within the field of Italian literature The Companion to Vittoria Colonna brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of leading scholars to assess Colonna s contribution both as a writer a role model and a contributor to important religious debates of the era This book while amply fulfilling the remit of providing a useful and comprehensive handbook to meet the needs of students and scholars at earlier and advanced levels aims in addition to do than this by drawing into a single volume for the first time

scholarship from across disciplines in which Vittoria Colonna s influence has been felt including literary criticism religious history history of art and music Contributors are Abigail Brundin Stephen Bowd Emidio Campi Eleonora Carinci Adriana Chemello Virginia Cox Tatiana Crivelli Maria Forcellino Gaudenz Freuler Anne Piejus Diana Robin Helena Sanson and Maria Serena Sapegno Abigail Brundin specialises in sixteenth century literature and culture and also has an interest in concepts of the sacred in contemporary fiction.