Author’s Page Maria Dr. Musiol

Publications about Vittoria Colonna 2014-2022

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1951-1958 classical Humanist Education:
Reading Homer, Plato, in ancient Greek

Reading Paolo Giovio’s Dialogues in Latin
even 50 years later: no problem!

1960 – 1965 University Studies: English
(Literature, Linguistics) History (Reformation),
Philosophy (State Exam: Philosophicum), 

State Exam for High School Teaching

1968 Doctor’s Degree: PhD

1966-1969 Historical Research
at Max-Planck Institute for History

1969 -2003 High-School Teaching
In Regensburg (Albertus-Magnus Gymnasium, Goethe-Gymnasium)

2003 -2020. First Systematic-Empirical Research 
of Vittoria Colonna, her Biography, her Sonnets, her letters,the documents of her contemporaries. 

 

 

 

Maria Musiol
VITTORIA COLONNA
SPURS AND REINS 
A WOMAN´s RENAISSANCE

ISBN: 978-3-7450-4134-7
2014  2nd Edition: May 2017

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Empirical Biographic Study of her Active Life, but above all of her Spiritual and Intellectual Life exclusively grounded on Primary Texts

The English Version of the Empirical Biographic Study was bought by Libraries and Universities worldwide (also by the Library of the American Congress, by the University Libraries of  Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Princeton, Toronto, Padua, Rome, Salerno, Edinburgh etc.

 

Maria Musiol
VITTORIA COLONNA
Shakespeare’s Spirited Sister
1492 -1547

ISBN 978-3-7450-3641-1
1st Edition 19.05.2017

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A Belletristic Biography

Subordination of either sex to the other is unjust and has been one of the main Obstacles to the Progress of Mankind
JOHN STUART MILL

 

Maria Musiol
VITTORIA COLONNA
Authenticity of a Petrarchist Poet

ISBN 978-3-753124-39-1
26.11.2020

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The First Empirical Systematic Representation of Vittoria Colonna’s RIME
Text-Centred Interpretation of 60 Sonnets
Grouped in Macro Themes

Focussing
The Poet’s Authenticity, her references to her Poet Father Petrarch, to whom she owes: Her courage to Self-Reference, to Authenticity, and to Individualised Poetology.

 

Maria Musiol
VITTORIA COLONNA
SEEKING THE DIVINE

E sereno dal bel Lume
Il Desio

Selected Sonnets 
Translation Interpretation

ISBN  978-3-753118-23-9
1st Edition 10. November 2020 softcover

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Maria Musiol
VITTORIA COLONNA
LETTERS

Mio Sigolarissimo Amico

Translation Interpretation

ISBN 978-3-756502-09-7
30.05.2022

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SEVEN SPONTANEOUS LETTERS

TWO by MICHELANGELO and FIVE by VITTORIA COLONNA, THE ONLY AUTHENTIC DOCUMENTS OF THEIR RELATIONSHIP, which is traced in LETTERS, VISITS, DRAWINGS, CAPOLAVORI, in HIS poems and in HER SONNETS.