Chasing small leads and traces of documentary evidence, Veronica Copello has found new letters belonging to the correspondence of Vittoria Colonna, the most important female poet in the Italian Renaissance. These documents have allowed Copello to shed new light on Colonna’s prose works, her poems and her biography, as well as on her character, showing how she was striving for truth in important as well as ordinary matters.

Copello is the Franco Zeffirelli Italian Fellow in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at the American Academy in Rome.

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