The Virgin Mary in the Early Modern Italian Writings of Vittoria Colonna, Lucrezia Marinella, and Eleonora Montalvo
Journal Title: Religions - Year 2018, Vol 9, Issue 2
Abstract
The Marian writings of the Roman poet Vittoria Colonna (1490/92-1547), the Venetian polemicist Lucrezia Marinella (1579–1653)1, and the Florentine educator Eleonora Montalvo (1602–1659) present an accessible model of the Virgin Mary in the early modern period that both lay and religious women could emulate in order to strengthen their individual spirituality. While the Catholic Church encouraged women to accept and imitate an ideal of the Virgin Mary’s character traits and behavior for the good of society, these three women writers constructed a more fruitful narrative of the Virgin’s life and experience that included elements and imagery that would empower women to enhance their personal practice of meditation.
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Jennifer Haraguchi
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