A Companion to Vittoria Colonna

Abigail Brundin is a Reader in Early Modern Literature and Culture in the Department of Italian at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of St Catharine's College. She has published on women writers in the first age of print, on literature and religious reform, including censorship and the first Indexes of Prohibited Books, and on poetry in and around convents. Her books include Vittoria Colonna, Sonnets for Michelangelo (Chicago: 2005) and Vittoria Colonna and the Spiritual Poetics of the Italian Reformation (Aldershot: 2008).

Tatiana Crivelli is Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Zurich, where from 2004 to 2014 she also directed the Centre for Renaissance Studies. She has published books on Giacomo Leopardi and on the novel in 18th-century Italy, but among her research interests women's writing has a particular relevance. Her most recent books are La donzelletta che nulla temea. Percorsi alternativi nella letteratura italiana tra Sette e Ottocento (Rome: 2014) and Pellegra Bongiovanni, Risposte a nome di Madonna Laura alle Rime di Messer Francesco Petrarca in vita della medesima (Rome-Padua: 2014).

Maria Serena Sapegno teaches medieval Italian Literature (Boccaccio and Petrarca), renaissance culture (political thought, historiography, utopian treatises, women poets), and 19th-century literature at "La Sapienza" University of Rome, where she also teaches Women's and Gender Studies. Her most recent publications are Il senso e le forme. Storia e Antologia della letteratura Italiana (Florence: 2011) and L'Italia dei poeti (Rome: 2013).