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Vittoria Colonna

1490 - 1547

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Vittoria Colonna (April 1492 – 25 February 1547), marchioness of Pescara, was an Italian noblewoman and poet. As an educated, married noblewoman whose husband was in captivity, Colonna was able to develop relationships within the intellectual circles of Ischia and Naples. Her early poetry began to attract attention in the late 1510s and she ultimately became one of the most popular poets of 16th-century Italy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vittoria Colonna has received more than 320,263 page views. Her biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Vittoria Colonna is the 843rd most popular writer (up from 968th in 2019), the 985th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,096th in 2019) and the 75th most popular Italian Writer.

Vittoria Colonna was a poet, author, and patron of the arts. She was the daughter of Fabrizio Colonna, Duke of Paliano, and his wife, Lucrezia d'Alagno. She married Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua, but they had no children.

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Notable Works

The Locks of Norbury
Norbury Park
Poems
Italian Sonnets, Poetry
Sonnets for Michelangelo
Rime e lettere
Things past
Rime di tre gentildonne de secolo XVI

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Vittoria Colonna ranks 843 out of 7,302Before her are Thietmar of Merseburg, Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz, Tibor Sekelj, Ingeborg Bachmann, Miroslav Krleža, and Julian Barnes. After her are Robert van Gulik, Heliodorus of Emesa, Juliette Récamier, Varlam Shalamov, W. H. Auden, and Stesichorus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1490, Vittoria Colonna ranks 6Before her are Mimar Sinan, Albert, Duke of Prussia, Adrian Willaert, Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, and Olaus Magnus. After her are Huáscar, Albert of Brandenburg, Florian Geyer, Ebussuud Efendi, Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, and Francesco Maria I della Rovere, Duke of Urbino. Among people deceased in 1547, Vittoria Colonna ranks 7Before her are Henry VIII of England, Hernán Cortés, Francis I of France, Anne of Bohemia and Hungary, Sebastiano del Piombo, and Pietro Bembo. After her are Saint Cajetan, Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma, Hadım Suleiman Pasha, Philippa of Guelders, Marie of Luxembourg, Countess of Vendôme, and Konrad Peutinger.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Vittoria Colonna ranks 985 out of 5,161Before her are Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma (1870), Gerard of Cremona (1114), Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608), Giovanni Giolitti (1842), Barbara Strozzi (1619), and Sextus Pompey (-67). After her are Lucia Bosè (1931), Stesichorus (-630), Luigi Einaudi (1874), Fulvia (-77), Juliana of Nicomedia (285), and Franco Columbu (1941).

Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Vittoria Colonna ranks 75Before her are Cesare Pavese (1908), Ibycus (-600), Pietro Bembo (1470), Italo Svevo (1861), Venantius Fortunatus (530), and Gerard of Cremona (1114). After her are Stesichorus (-630), Gaius Lucilius (-180), Gnaeus Naevius (-275), Lucius Accius (-170), Rustichello da Pisa (1290), and Chiara Lubich (1920).