![]() He had the 103 sonnets bound in vellum together with another forty sonnets Vittoria sent him from Viterbo. Michelangelo mentions the present in a letter to his nephew Lionardo he wrote on March 7 th, 1551. The proof of her deep devotion to Michelangelo is hidden in the vellum codex Vaticanus 11539, which contains a canzoniere of her sonnets she had collected for him single-handed. “I want to have it furnished with a pedestal to make painting easier for him, because he exhausts himself so much in the chapel of San Paolo.” How much she worried about Michelangelo, is revealed in her letter to Alvise Priuli, whom she asked to get her a mirror at Venice. They exchanged sonnets and he drew a Pietà for her and a Samaritan woman at the well. On the other hand, she often travelled from there to Rome in order to visit her “ singolarissimo amico”. Vittoria gave him a politely disguised brush-off in her letter of July 20 th (1542?) she sent him from Viterbo. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In another letter, again without a date, enamoured Michelangelo, already in his sixties, is searching an occasion to pay her a visit. Of numerous poems he dedicated to her, only one poem can be ascribed to her for certain, because he had scribbled it on the backside of a letter to his beloved Marchesa. One letter by Michelangelo and two letters by Vittoria Colonna deal with a drawing of the crucified created by Michelangelo to do her a favour. Scarce is the evidence about the relationship between Vittoria Colonna and Michelangelo. ![]()
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