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Late Love: Vittoria Colonna and Reginald Pole
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In the final years of her life, Vittoria Colonna developed a profound attachment
to the English Catholic cardinal, Reginald Pole, who had formed a
circle of reformers in the city of Viterbo where Colonna herself moved in
1541. This paper examines the epistolary exchange between Colonna and
Pole with an aim of uncovering the nature of what Colonna repeatedly
describes as her ‘extreme obligation’. The letters Colonna wrote both to
Pole directly and to others in the Viterbo group about Pole reveal his
role in her life as a Christ-like figure to whom she is both erotically and
spiritually drawn.
Title: Late Love: Vittoria Colonna and Reginald Pole
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In the final years of her life, Vittoria Colonna developed a profound attachment
to the English Catholic cardinal, Reginald Pole, who had formed a
circle of reformers in the city of Viterbo where Colonna herself moved in
1541.
This paper examines the epistolary exchange between Colonna and
Pole with an aim of uncovering the nature of what Colonna repeatedly
describes as her ‘extreme obligation’.
The letters Colonna wrote both to
Pole directly and to others in the Viterbo group about Pole reveal his
role in her life as a Christ-like figure to whom she is both erotically and
spiritually drawn.
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