Article: Sonnets for Michelangelo: A Bilingual Edition.(Book review)

Sonnets for Michelangelo: A Bilingual Edition. By VITTORIA COLONNA. Ed. and trans. by ABIGAIL BRUNDIN. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2005. xxxii+197PP. 17 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-226-11392-2.

For at least three centuries, Vittoria Colonna's spiritual poems have been read in unauthorized publications; the most complete of these, the Venetian printing by Valgrisi of 1546, was followed by Alan Bullock in his 1982 edition of Colonna's Rime. It was only in 1840 that Pietro Ercole Visconti published an edition consistent with some manuscripts, regarded as true representations of the author's will. Abigail Brundin has now published and translated ...

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