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Veronica Gambara
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Molly M. Martin
  • LAST REVIEWED: 21 January 2016
  • LAST MODIFIED: 21 January 2016
  • DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780195399301-0311

  • Bozzetti, Cesare, Pietro Gibellini, and Ennio Sandal, eds. Veronica Gambara e la poesia del suo tempo nell’Italia settentrionale. Florence: Olschki, 1989.

    Published in Italian, this collection of essays from a 1985 conference on Gambara assembles deeply researched studies on Gambara family history, the political and cultural contexts of Brescia and Correggio, and Gambara’s poetic and epistolary catalogue. This is an indispensable volume to Gambara studies given the range and depth of the assembled material.

  • Costa-Zalessow, Natalia. Scrittrici italiane dal XIII al XX secolo. Ravenna, Italy: Longo, 1982.

    A short entry written in Italian that reviews Gambara’s biography and literary legacy, accompanied by a selection of poems and letters. A nice place to begin for first-time readers of Gambara.

  • Cox, Virginia. “Women Writers and the Canon in Sixteenth Century Italy: The Case of Vittoria Colo

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    Under the Sign of Dido: Veronica Gambara (1485-1550), Life, Letters, and Poetry

    St. Peter's in Rome from a bridge across the Tiber River, copyright Vittorio F. DiMeglio*

    If readers of anthologies of women's, Renaissance, and Italian poetry recognize the name Veronica Gambara at all, they probably remember the name from reading a few of her sonnets or an abridgement of Gambara's one famous poem, Quando miro la terra ornata e bella. Even in the case of "Quando miro," one can still come across late 19th and early 20th century works which attribute it to Vittoria Colonna or bring forth evidence to prove it is by Gambara. Until recently, Gambara has received little serious attention from scholars and critics.1

    She was born on November 29, 1485, near Brescia, one of the seven children of Count Gianfrancesco da Gambara and Alda Pio da Carpi. Her father and mother were near cousins from long-linked aristocratic and landowning Northan Italian families who prided themselves upon the humanistic milieu to which they belonged. The two families maintained a high standard of educatio

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    Veronica Gambara

    Italian poet and politician

    Veronica Gambara (29 or 30 November 1485[1][2] – 13 June 1550) was an Italian poet and politician. She was the ruler of the County of Correggio from 1518 until 1550.

    Biography

    Born in Pralboino (now in the Province of Brescia), in Lombardy, Italy, Gambara came from a distinguished family, one of the seven children of Count Gianfrancesco da Gambara and Alda Pio da Carpi.[1] Her family contained a number of distinguished female intellectuals, including her great-aunts, the humanist poets Ginevre and Isotta Nogarola.[3]: 164  Veronica was also a niece of Emilia Pia, the principal female interlocutor of Baldessare Castiglione's Il Cortegiano.[4]: 160–61 

    Gambara received a humanist education, studying Latin, Greek, philosophy, theology and scripture.[4]: 160 [3]: 170  In 1502, at the age of 17, she began corresponding with the leading neo-Petrarchan, Pietro Bembo, who became her po

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