Amaro Lagrimar
The Poems of Vittoria Colonna
Newly Translated and Arranged by
Ellen Moody
Translations and notes are copyright © Ellen Moody 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001.
- Prologue
- Part One: In Solitude
- Part Two: With Imagined Others
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Boy and Girl
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The Marriage
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The Blow
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Justifying Her Refusal to Remarry
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Songs of Triumph for Pescara
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Anniversaries
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On and to her Family
Includes poetry to Fabrizio Colonna (her father) and
Agnesina Montefeltro Colonna (her mother); to Pompeo
Colonna (her cousin and friend); to
Alfonso d'Avalos, Marchese del Vasto (Pescara's cousin and his and
her adopted son); to Ascanio Colonna (her brother), Giovanna
d'Aragona Colonna (Ascanio's wife and her sister-in-law and friend),
and on the birth of their son, Fabrizio (her nephew); to
Frederigo Fregoso (her cousin and close friend)
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To Friends, In Reponse to Their Poems, Occasional
Includes poetry to, on and in response to Ludovico
Ariosto, Pietro Bembo, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Francesco
Berni, Charles V, Clement VII (Giulio de' Medici),
Gasparo Contarini, an unknown "faithful woman"
(perhaps Constanza d'Avalos Piccolomini, Duchess of Amalfi, perhaps a
nun at Viterbo, perhaps Innocenza Gualterruzzi), Veronica Gambara,
Gian Matteo Giberti, Paolo Giovio, Giovanni Guidiccioni, Francesco
Maria Molza, Bernardo Ochino, Paul III (Alessandro Farnese), Reginald
Pole, Bernardino Rota, Jacopo Sannazaro, Luigi Tansillo, Antonio
Tebaldeo, and an unnamed alchemist
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- Devotional Meditations
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To Christ
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To The Virgin
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To Mary Magdalen
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To Specific Figures
Includes poetry to St Catherine of
Alexandria and St Ursula; to the Archangel Michael; to
the three Magi;
to the apostles, disciples and New Testament characters: Peter,
Andrew, Thomas, Simeon, Zacchaeus;
to male Christian martyrs and saints: St Stephen, St Ignatius,
St Dionysius, St Francis of Assisi; to Noah (Old Testament); on
the innocent massacred children (Matt 2:13-18) and to elect
souls in Paradise
- Political and Religious
- Epilogue
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Index of First Lines
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