Vittoria Colonna: Selections from the Rime Spirituali with Photographs of Josep Maria Subirachs’ Passion FaçadeThe first woman to achieve wide recognition as a poet in Renaissance
Italy, Vittoria Colonna was known for her ardent, but also deeply
spiritual, verses. This volume reproduces ten of her sonnets in the
original Italian alongside new English versions of compelling
simplicity, and complements both with a sequence of moving black and
white photographs. Governor General’s Award winner Jan Zwicky gives
Colonna’s spiritual insights a contemporary voice, while photographer
and noted mathematician Robert Moody paces her words against a visual
meditation on the Passion story, as conveyed by Subirachs’ sculptures
for the basilica of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. The volume’s
juxtaposition of poetry and photography illuminates the passion,
reverence, and timelessness of both Subirachs’ and Colonna’s work. |
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