id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_2gk324xzmjdcvpudk6to6ak3hm Meredith J. Gill Renaissance Woman: The Life of Vittoria Colonna. Ramie Targoff. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018. 342 pp. $30 2020 2 .pdf application/pdf 995 65 64 RQX_73_2_Book-Reviews 664..666 Renaissance Woman: The Life of Vittoria Colonna. the first woman in Italy to see a collection of her poetry in print. received news from Milan of his death. Colonna traveled to Rome, seeking a vocation Ramie Targoff tells Colonna's story with empathy and imagination, gracefully circumventing academic conceits and disciplinary boundaries. Targoff describes the circumstances of Colonna's approaching death and her late meditations on paradigms of female piety, Catherine of Alexandria, and Mary Magdalene, Order (of whom Colonna was a champion), and the format of a Renaissance originality of Colonna's works. Whether Colonna was a "Renaissance woman," Vasari's Words: The "Lives of the Artists" as a History of Ideas in the Italian studied Lives of the Artists is a neglected chapter in the intellectual history of Renaissance Biow needs to articulate his view of the fundamental design of the Lives: profession, ./cache/work_2gk324xzmjdcvpudk6to6ak3hm.pdf ./txt/work_2gk324xzmjdcvpudk6to6ak3hm.txt