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Figuring Vittoria Colonna’s Desirous Widow in Francisco de Aldana’s ‘Pues cabe tanto en vos del bien del cielo’
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dc.contributor.author | Lennon, Paul Joseph | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-12-23T15:30:01Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-12-23T15:30:01Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-12-23 | |
dc.identifier | 274154222 | |
dc.identifier | 8ef37c18-933f-4f7d-b1b6-1b7752ecde1c | |
dc.identifier | 85121758049 | |
dc.identifier | 000733624900002 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Lennon , P J 2021 , ' Figuring Vittoria Colonna’s Desirous Widow in Francisco de Aldana’s ‘Pues cabe tanto en vos del bien del cielo’ ' , Romance Studies , vol. 39 , no. 4 , pp. 208-220 . https://doi.org/10.1080/02639904.2021.2002555 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0263-9904 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0002-7025-9961/work/105318631 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/24574 | |
dc.description.abstract | The sonnet ‘Pues cabe tanto en vos del bien del cielo’ by Spanish-Neapolitan poet Francisco de Aldana (1537-78) challenges interpretation through its genre-defying mix of consolatory, philosophic, and amatory elements; in particular, its inclusion of an enigmatic statement by a ventriloquized female figure alien to contemporary Hispanic courtly poetry. In this study, I offer an interpretation through a comparative study with the Rime amorose (1538) of Vittoria Colonna (1490-1547), in which she popularized the Petrarchan voice of the desiring widow in Italian poetry. After establishing a link between the Aldana and Colonna families by virtue of the fragment ‘Aunque a la alta región del alegría’, which addresses the death of Colonna’s niece, I explain how the yearning contained within Colonna’s lyric, noted to possess an erotic potential, may have led Aldana to incorporate this voice in his own poetic exploration of a combinatory spiritual and physical philosophy of love. Additionally, given the absence of the Colonnaesque tradition in Spain, I consider how expressions of desire by female voices in the arte menor and pastoral traditions potentially could have led to a similar interpretation for Hispanic readers. | |
dc.format.extent | 13 | |
dc.format.extent | 645659 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Romance Studies | en |
dc.subject | Vittoria Colonna | en |
dc.subject | Francisco de Aldana | en |
dc.subject | Neoplatonism | en |
dc.subject | Consolatio | en |
dc.subject | Desire | en |
dc.subject | Grief | en |
dc.subject | Love | en |
dc.subject | PC Romance languages | en |
dc.subject | PQ Romance literatures | en |
dc.subject | T-NDAS | en |
dc.subject.lcc | PC | en |
dc.subject.lcc | PQ | en |
dc.title | Figuring Vittoria Colonna’s Desirous Widow in Francisco de Aldana’s ‘Pues cabe tanto en vos del bien del cielo’ | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Spanish | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/02639904.2021.2002555 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
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