which is sublime: it may be found in Mathias's Collection, vol. iii.
[37] Died 1535.
[38] Mrs. Hemans.
CHAPTER VI.
CONJUGAL POETRY CONTINUED.
VERONICA GAMBARA.
Vittoria Colonna, and her famed friend and contemporary, Veronica, Countess of Correggio, are inseparable names in the history of Italian literature, as living at the same time, and equally ornaments of their sex. They resembled each other in poetical talent, in their domestic sorrows and conjugal virtues: in every other respect the contrast is striking. Vittoria, with all her genius, seems to have been as lovely, gentle, and feminine a creature as ever wore the form of woman.
No lily—no—nor fragrant hyacinth,
Had half such softness, sweetness, blessedness.