Vittoria Colonna. Warrior's Wife. Letters

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Vittoria Colonna's lively presence in this book has been the result of exclusively empirical research of her letters without diverting the reader's attention to rightly called secondary literature.
Vittoria Colonna cut a brilliant figure as warrior's wife through her letters to the potentates of the wars in Renaissance Italy from 1511 to 1530.In March 1525, a month after her husband's triumphant victory over France at Pavia, crowned by the capture of the French King Frances I, a victory catapulting Charles V into the hegemony over Europe, the emperor, always short of money, wrote a thanksgiving letter to Vittoria instead of her husband in order to postpone the compensation for his singular service, only affirming verbally:" Nothing is too much for the marchese to expect from our thankfulness." Far from feeling flattered by the emperor's empty promises, Vittoria answered him sarcastically:" I do not know what to estimate more to receive the reward of such a great Lord or the glory of having him as a debtor." Charles V 's self-complacent wordplay with her name Vittoria was retorted by her: " I have only used my name to defeat myself: While Marchese served you under such great dangers, I have been longing for him to come to me and to rest with me. "At the same time, La Marchesa, as her husband's diplomat at the papal court, had to constitute herself on slippery political parquet in confrontation with Pope Clement VII and Gian Matteo Giberti, his Datarius, displaying astonishing masterdom at scholastic arguing, political knowledge and intrinsic informedness about the topical situation, which was necessary with Giberti and Clement pursuing seesaw policy from one side to the opposite, or keeping neutral. In October, 1523, the pope nominated Vittoria Colonna as Governor of Benevent to represent her husband, absent as imperial general in military expeditions in Liguria and France " ob curas bellicas", " because we are aware of your great abilities, owing to which you are standing out of the female sex, uniting yourself with your husband not only physically, but also in mind, velour, and energy."

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Maria Dr. Musiol
1958 Abitur am Humanistischen Gymnasium in Bayern; Universitätsstudium der Anglistik und Geschichte, der Philosophie und Italianistik; bayerisches Staatsexamen für das Höhere Lehramt in Bayern; 1968 Dissertation in Geschichte; 1968- 1969 Wissenschaftliche Tätigkeit am Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte in Göttingen; 1969 - 2003 Lehrtätigkeit an Gymnasien in Regensburg; Seit 2004 Ruhestand: Erstmalige umfassende Erforschung der Vittoria Colonna und Veröffentlichung ihrer Biographie gemäß den Primärtexten. Die Erwerbung der englischen Version durch UBs weltweit (auch Harvard, Princeton, Oxford, die Bibliothek des Amerikanischen Kongresses) ermutigt mich nach weiteren 3500 Arbeitsstunden zu der Veröffentlichung der ersten systematischen (!) Darstellung der Dichtung Vittoria Colonnas.

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