. The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 4); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . eligion and literature. We find her usually in vari-ous monasteries, at Rome, Viterbo, and elsewhere,li\ing in conventual simplicity, the centre of all thatwas noblest in the intellectual and spiritual life of thetimes. She had a peculiar genius for friendship, andthe wonderful spiritual tie that united her to Michel-angelo Buonarroti made the romance of that great artists life. Pietro Bembo, the literary dictator ofthe age, was among her mos
. The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 4); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . eligion and literature. We find her usually in vari-ous monasteries, at Rome, Viterbo, and elsewhere,li\ing in conventual simplicity, the centre of all thatwas noblest in the intellectual and spiritual life of thetimes. She had a peculiar genius for friendship, andthe wonderful spiritual tie that united her to Michel-angelo Buonarroti made the romance of that great artists life. Pietro Bembo, the literary dictator ofthe age, was among her most fervent admirers. Shewas closely in touch with Ghiberti, Contarini, Gio-vanni Morone, and all that group of men and womenwho were workingfor the reformationof the Church fromwithin. For a whileshe had been drawninto the controversyconcerning justifi-cation by faith, butwas kept within thelimits of orthodoxyby the influence ofthe beloved friendof her last ReginaldPole, to whom shedeclared she owedher salvation. Herlast wish was to beburied among thenuns of S. Anna deFunari at Rome;but it is doubtfulwhether her bodyultimately rested. Vittoria Colonna,(Colonna Gallery, Rome) there, or was removed to the side of her husband atSan Domenico in Naples. Vittoria is undoubtedly greater as a personalitythan as a poet. Her earlier Rime, which aremainly devoted to the glorification of her husband,are somewhat monotonous. Her later sonnets arealmost exclusively religious, and strike a deeper longer poem in terza-rima, the Trionfo di Cristo,shows the influence of Dante and Savonarola, as wellas that of Petrarch. Her latest and best biographer,Mrs. Jerrold, to whom we are indebted for a numberof beautiful and faithful translations of Vittoriaspoetry, has drawn a suggestive analogy between itand the work of Christina Rossetti. Many of Vitto-rias letters, and a prose meditation upon the Passionof Christ, have also been preserved. ViscONTi, Rime di Vittoria Colonna (Rome,
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