"She bore me great affection, and I had none the less for her. Death deprived me of a great friend."
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Michelangelo. Reported in Isidoro Del Lungo (tr. Mary C. Steegmann) Women of Florence (1907), p. xxix
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Vittoria Colonna
Vittoria Colonna (April 1492 – 25 February 1547), marchioness of Pescara, was an Italian noblewoman and poet.
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