GAMBARA, VERONICA. - Poet, born at Pratalboino in the Brescia area on 30 Nov. 1485, died on 13 June 1550 in a suburban villa she had enriched with paintings by Antonio Allegri. At the age of twenty-three she became the wife of Gilberto X of Correggio, who died very young, successfully repelling the army of Galeotto Pico. For her two sons Geronimo and Ippolito she obtained conspicuous privileges from Charles V. She enjoyed the friendship of V. Colonna, P. Bembo, B. Varchi, I. Sannazzaro, P. Aretino.
She composed Rime (Brescia 1759; Florence 1870) of a Petrarchan character, among which those of a religious character dedicated to the Virgin, to the Nativity of Christ, to the mystery of predestination, and to the necessary concord of Christian peoples in the struggle against the Turks have some prominence. Of notable significance are the Lettere (Florence 1879); in them her intelligence reveals itself capable of the art of government, most sensitive to family affections and to the wholly literary taste of poetry.
Bibliography4 worksL. Purgilicono, Monarè intorno alla vita e agli scritti di V. G., Brescia 1827; C. De Courten, V. G. gentildosso del Cinquecento, a voll., M
BIBL.: L. Purgilicono, Monarè intorno alla vita e agli scritti di V. G., Brescia 1827; C. De Courten, V. G. gentildosso del Cinquecento, a voll., Milano 1934-35; G. Strozzi, Uno grande bresciano; V. G., in Brescia, 7 (1934, 1941), pp. 33-35.
Altamura, Antonio. “Gambara, veronica.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, col. 1920. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/gambara-veronica.
MLA
Altamura, Antonio. “Gambara, veronica.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, col. 1920. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/gambara-veronica.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec5_gambara_veronica,
author = {Altamura, Antonio},
title = {Gambara, veronica},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {V},
pages = {1920},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1950},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/gambara-veronica}
}
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