Veronica Gambara

Veronica Gambara (* June 30, 1485 Pratalboino, Brescia Province, † June 13, 1550 in Correggio (Emilia -Romagna) ) was an Italian poet.

Life and work

Gambara received a comprehensive education through which she was familiar with the Latin and Greek language. 1508 she married Giberto X., Lord of Correggio. After his death in 1518 she ruled the small city-state with skill, although the obligations of their position oppressed them and they are much more of a contemplative life drew to a close. Her poems, which are characterized by easy and natural elegance and warm sensation were greatly admired by her contemporaries. With the Cardinal Pietro Bembo they kept up a lively correspondence, and her house in Bologna was the meeting place of the most important poets of the time.

Subjects of their poems along the lines of Bembo and Petrarch are love (resistive passions, pain and happiness of love, beauty of the eyes of the lover ), the simple country life and the native landscape, politics ( praise of the Emperor Charles V and the Pope's call for war against the Turks) and religion.

Your collected works were by Felice Rizzardi under the title: Rime e lettere di issued VG ( with a biography of the poet by Baldassare Camillo Zamboni, Brescia 1759) and by Pia Mestica Chiappetti (Florence 1879).