Vittoria Colonna, marchesa di Pescara

Vittoria Colonna (April 1490 – 25 February 1547), marchioness of Pescara, was an Italian noblewoman and poet.

To Vittoria Colonna

Lady, how can it chance - yet this we see

In long experience - that will longer last

A living image carved from quarries vast

than its own maker, who dies presently?

Cause yieldeth to effect if this so be,

And even Nature is by Art surpassed;

This know I, who to Art have given the past,

But see that Time is breaking faith with me.

Perhaps on both of us long life can I

Either in color or in stone bestow,

By now portraying each in look and mien;

So that a thousand years after we die,

How fair thou wast, and I how full of woe,

And wherefore I so loved thee, may be seen.

From Seven Sonnets and a Canzone by Michelangelo (di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni)

Translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Citation: Michaelangelo Buonarroti Birth: Mar 6 1475 - Caprese Michelangelo, Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy Death: Feb 18 1564 - Rome, Rome, Lazio, Italy Parents: Lodovico di Leonardo Buonarroti Simoni, Francesca Buonarroti Simoni (born Del Sara) Spouses: Misses Angelita Buonarroti (born Buonarrotti), Vittoria Colonna Children: Greggario Buonarrotti, Toma Buonarrotti, Michaelangelo Buonarrotti Siblings: Leonardo Di Lodovico Bunoarroti Simoni, Sigismondo Buonarroti, Buonarrotino Di Lodovico Bunoarroti Simoni, Giovan Simone Buonarroti