Veronica Gambara
Veronica Gambara (born June 30, 1485 Pratalboino , province of Brescia , † June 13, 1550 in Correggio (Emilia-Romagna) ) was an Italian poet .
life and work
Gambara received a comprehensive education through which she became familiar with the Latin and Greek languages. In 1508 she married Giberto X , Lord of Correggio. After his death in 1518 she ruled the small city-state with skill, although the obligations of her position oppressed her and she was much more inclined to a contemplative life. Her poems , which are characterized by light and natural elegance and warm feeling, were greatly admired by their contemporaries. She had a lively correspondence with Cardinal Pietro Bembo , and her house in Bologna was the meeting place of the most important poets of the time.
Themes of her poems based on the model of Bembos and Petrarch are love (reluctant passions, pain and happiness of love, beauty of the lover's eyes), simple country life and the native landscape, politics (praise of Emperor Charles V and the Pope, appeal to War against the Turks) and religion.
Her collected works have been edited by Felice Rizzardi under the title: Rime e lettere di VG (with a biography of the poet by Baldassare Camillo Zamboni, Brescia 1759) and by Pia Mestica Chiappetti (Florence 1879).
literature
- Cesare Bozzetti, Pietro Gibellini, Ennio Sandal (eds.): Veronica Gambara e la poesia del suo tempo nell'Italia settentrionale , Olschki, Florence, 1989 ISBN 88-222-3636-X
- Antonia Chimenti: Veronica Gambara. Gentildonna del Rinascimento , Magis Books, Reggio Emilia, 1994
- Daniela Pizzagalli: La signora della poesia. Vita e passioni di Veronica Gambara, artista del Rinascimento , Rizzoli, Milan, 2004 ISBN 88-17-00317-4
Web links
- Literature by and about Veronica Gambara in the catalog of the German National Library
- Gambara . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 6, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 886.
- Biography Gambaras with bibliography and linked works in English translation (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gambara, Veronica |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 30, 1485 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pratalboino , Republic of Venice |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 13, 1550 |
| Place of death | Correggio , County of Correggio , Holy Roman Empire |