The brilliant poet, Vittoria Colonna, whose longing is buried beneath her grief, ignites the spirit of the artist Michelangelo and challenges him with both the profound terror and fierce beauty of love. To her father, the warrior Fabrizio Colonna, she was the daughter whose marriage sealed a political alliance. To Costanza D'Avalos, Duchess of Francavilla, she was the young girl Costanza educated to be a woman molded after herself--independent,...