CONTENT
VITTORIA COLONNA
Seeking the Divine
RIME SPIRITUALI
PREFACE
Vittoria Colonna
A Godseeker
sans pareil
MICHELANGELO
The Living Crucified
for
Marchesa de Pescara
VITTORIA COLONNA
POETESS of RENAISSANCE PETRARCHISM
and of REFORMED THEOLOGY
SPIRITUAL PETRARCHAN SONNETS
Religious authenticity
Subjective-Female Spirituality
Creative Heretical Theology
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Research Report
Vittoria Colonna
A Lily-Saint on the Iter Spirituale?
The Fateful Error of Rinaldo Corso
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NECESSITY of EMPIRICAL RESEARCH and of
TEXT IMMANENT INTERPRETATION
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VITTORIA COLONNA
THEOLOGICAL DISCOURSE ON EYE-LEVEL
with Prestigious Reform Theologians
JUAN DE VALDES; GASPARO CONTARINI;
BERNARDINO OCHINO; REGINALD POLE AND THE SPIRITUALI;
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VITTORIA COLONNA
PERSONA SFUMATA ??
in the EXCLUSIVE CLERICAL COMMUNITY of VITERBO
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and the OFFICIAL CHURCH
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Dissent with Reform TheologiansV
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MICHELANGELO’S SPIRITUAL RECTOR
1540 -1545
CANZONIERE FOR MICHELANGELO
Groundlaying Text
for Michelangelo’s ICONOGRAPHY
Living Christ on the Cross
Giftdrawing for Vittoria Colonna
Madonna in the Last Judgement
Cappella Paolina
Heretical Spirit from Viterbo into the Vatcan!
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MACRO THEMES
RIME SPIRITUALI
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AIMS AND METHODS OF INTERPRETATION
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THE POETESS as MEDIUM OF DIVINE INSPIRATION
Ma dal foco divin convien ch’escan queste faville
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OVERVIEW
MACRO THEMES and SONNETS
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THEOLOGIA CRUCIS
Proem
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Theologia Crucis and Apollonian Divinity
L’Alto Signor
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Vittoria Colonna versus Bernardino Ochino
Vedea l’alto Signor
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Meditation of the Crucified
Veggio in Croce
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Theologia Crucis and Human Wickedness
Dimmi Lume
121
Theolgia Crucis Vicious World Corrupted Church;
Veggio di mille vel i avo
Theologia Crucis in Poetical Perfection
Braccia aprendo in croce
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SOLA FIDE
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Lively Faith and God’s Absence
Deh! potess’veder
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Faith and Hope
Se con l’armi celesti
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Faith and Scepticism
Con la croce a gran passi
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and the
Ecclesia Viterbiensis
Voice of the Spirituali?
Dead Sonnets?
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AUTHENTIC RESPONSE TO VITERBO
ENLIGHTENMENT through THE HOLY SPIRIT
as POETICAL INSPIRATION
Qual digiuno augellin
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Failure of Spirituality
in Angst, Panic, Depression
Non si puo aver
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Absence of the Holy Spirit in the Poet’s Soul
Con vomer d’umilitá
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The abandoned soul
Padre Eterno del Ciel´
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Proposal to the Holy Spirit:
A lamp for brighter inner enlightenment
Vorrei, che ‘l vero soul
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ESTRANGEMENT FROM VITERBO
Religious Subjectivism
GOD SEEKER in THIS WORLD
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Magic and religion in extremis
Vorrei che sempre un grido alto e possente
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Religio
Re-Connection to God
Quando il turbato mar
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LONGING for the DIVINE
HERE and NOW
É sereno dal bel lume il desio
Quando, mercé del Ciel’
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Résumé
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RENAISSANCE MENTALITY
In HER RIME SPIRITUALI
Tempo é che io
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EPILOGUE
VITTORIA COLONNA
EXPERIMENTING WITH THE DIVINE
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APPENDICES
Rime Spirituali in Alphabetical Order
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The Drawings of Michelangelo
for
Vittoria Colonna
Licenses and picture credits
175
Primary texts
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COMPANION TO VITTORIA COLONNA
EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
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Referential Literature
AUTHOR’S NOTE