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“EFENDİMİN ARDINDAN YÜRÜMEYE CAN ATIYORUM”: VITTORIA COLONNA’NIN SONELERİNDE ÖZLEM DOLU SES

Year 2024, Volume: 7 Issue: 4, 1005 - 1017, 31.12.2024
https://doi.org/10.37999/udekad.1565476

Abstract

Vittoria Colonna’dan seçme soneler aşkın dünyevi ve ilahi biçimleri arasındaki gerilim üzerinden kutsal-dünyevi ikilemini irdeler. Colonna, güçlü bir inanca sahip olsa da dünyevi kaygılar nedeniyle ruhani saflığa ulaşılamayabileceğini kabul eder. Maddi dünyada ayrıcalıklı bir konuma sahip olmanın ve ebedi olana duyulan özlemin çelişkili duyguları, Colonna’nın şiirinde dünyevi ve doğaüstü olan arasındaki çatışmayla şiirleştirilir. Seçilen sonelerin analizi, şairin hem saraylı bir kadın hem de İsa’nın dindar bir inananı olarak çelişen seslerini ve personalarını vurgulamayı amaçlamaktadır. Dolayısıyla bu çalışma, Colonna’nın seçilmiş sonelerine odaklanarak şairin Aristotelesçi bir perspektiften inanç ve ‘yanlış’ arzular kavramlarını karşılaştırmak için imgeleri nasıl kullandığını göstermektedir. Şiirlerin yakından okunması, Colonna’nın edebi karmaşıklığını ve şairin, profan olanın kutsala meydan okuduğu bir dönemde İsa için soneler yazarken takındığı dini tavrı ortaya koymaktadır. Çalışma, Colonna’nın sonelerinin umut için bir alan inşa ederek didaktik bir şekilde kişisel ifadenin ötesine geçtiği ve potansiyel olarak sadece Colonna’ya değil başkalarına da teselli sunduğu sonucuna varmaktadır.

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“I LONG TO STRIDE BEHIND MY LORD”: THE YEARNING VOICE IN VITTORIA COLONNA’S SONNETS

Year 2024, Volume: 7 Issue: 4, 1005 - 1017, 31.12.2024
https://doi.org/10.37999/udekad.1565476

Abstract

Vittoria Colonna’s selected sonnets explore the sacred-profane dichotomy through the tension between earthly and divine forms of love. Colonna acknowledges that even though she maintains a strong faith, spiritual purity can be unattainable due to earthbound concerns. The contradictory feelings of holding a privileged position in the material world and longing for the eternal are poeticised with the clash between the earthly and the supernatural in Colonna’s poetry. The analysis of the selected sonnets intends to highlight the poet’s conflicting voices and personas as both a courtly woman and a devout follower of Christ. This study, therefore, focuses on Colonna’s selected sonnets to illustrate how the poet uses imagery to contrast the notion of faith and ‘false’ desires from an Aristotelian perspective. A close reading of the poems reveals Colonna’s literary complexity and the poet’s religious attitude in creating the sonnets for Christ during a time when the profane challenged the sacred. The study concludes that Colonna’s sonnets transcend personal expression in a didactic manner by constructing a space for hope, potentially offering solace not only to Colonna but to others as well.

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  • Adler, S. M. (2015). Vittoria Colonna: Michelangelo’s perfect muse. Italica, 92 (1), 5-32.
  • Adler, S. M. (2000). Strong Mothers, Strong daughters: The representation of female identity in Vittoria Colonna’s Rime and Carteggio. Italica, 77 (3), 311-330.
  • Agoston, L. C. (2005). Male/ Female, Italy/ Flanders, Michelangelo/ Vittoria Colonna. Renaissance Quarterly, 58 (4), 1175-1219.
  • Aristotle. (1995). The complete works of Aristotle: The revised Oxford translation. J. Barnes (Ed.). Princeton University Press.
  • Bassanese, F. A. (2007). Vittoria Colonna’s Man/ God. Annali d’Italianistica, 25, 263-274.
  • Brundin, A. (2001). Vittoria Colonna and the Virgin Mary. Modern Language Review, 96, 61-81.
  • Colonna, V. (2005). Sonnets for Michelangelo: A bilingual edition. (A. Brundin, Trans.). Chicago University Press.
  • Coogan, M. D. (Ed.). (2001). The new Oxford annotated Bible: New revised standard version with the apocrypha. Oxford University Press.
  • Debby, N. B. (2003). Vittoria Colonna and Titian’s Pitti “Magdalen”. Woman’s Art Journal, 24 (1), 29-33.
  • D’Elia, U. R. (2006). Drawing Christ’s blood: Michelangelo, Vittoria Colonna, and the aesthetics of reform. Renaissance Quarterly, 59 (1), 90-129.
  • Diffley, P. (1987). Review of Vittoria Colonna: Rime. Modern Language Review, 755-756.
  • Gibaldi, J. (1987). Vittoria Colonna: Child, woman, and poet. Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation. K. M. Wilson (Ed.), pp. 22-46. The University of Georgia Press.
  • Gouwens, K. (2015). Female virtue and the embodiment of beauty: Vittoria Colonna in Paolo Giovio’s Notable Men and Women. Renaissance Quarterly, 68 (1), 33-97.
  • Hamilton, E. (1998). Mythology. Bay Back.
  • Hughes, G. J. (2001). Aristotle on ethics. Routledge.
  • Kingsley, K. S., & Parry, R. (2024, September 25). Empedocles. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/empedocles/
  • Maratsos, J. (2017). Michelangelo, Vittoria Colonna, and the afterlife of intimacy. The Art Bulletin, 99 (4), 69-101.
  • Marz, R. (1951). Vittoria Colonna. Poetry, 78 (5), 280.
  • Mete, B. (2018). Mimetic tradition and the critical theory. Selcuk University Journal of Social Sciences Institute, 39, 216-224.
  • Nagel, A. (1997). Gifts for Michelangelo and Vittoria Colonna. The Art Bulletin, 79 (4), 647-668.
  • Nova, A. (1997). Vittoria Colonna. The Burlington Magazine, 139, 423-425.
  • Qestermark-Johansen, L. (1999). Matchless beauty of widowhood: Vittoria Colonna’s reputation in nineteenth-century England. Art History, 22 (2), 270-294.
  • Robin, D. (2012). The Breasts of Vittoria Colonna. California Italian Studies, 3 (1), 1-16.
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Primary Language English
Subjects Italian Language, Literature and Culture, World Languages, Literature and Culture (Other), Reinessance Literature, Literary Studies (Other)
Journal Section Research Articles
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Şafak Altunsoy 0000-0002-5573-1121

Early Pub Date December 28, 2024
Publication Date December 31, 2024
Submission Date October 11, 2024
Acceptance Date December 17, 2024
Published in Issue Year 2024 Volume: 7 Issue: 4

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APA Altunsoy, Ş. (2024). “I LONG TO STRIDE BEHIND MY LORD”: THE YEARNING VOICE IN VITTORIA COLONNA’S SONNETS. Uluslararası Dil Edebiyat Ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi, 7(4), 1005-1017. https://doi.org/10.37999/udekad.1565476

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