1951-1958 classical Humanist Education:
Reading Homer, Plato, in ancient Greek

Reading Paolo Giovio’s Dialogues in Latin
even 50 years later: no problem!

1960 – 1965 University Studies: English
(Literature, Linguistics) History (Reformation),
Philosophy (State Exam: Philosophicum),

State Exam for High School Teaching

1968 Doctor’s Degree: PhD

1966 - 1969 Historical Research
at Max-Planck Institute for History

1969 - 2003 High-School Teaching
In Regensburg (Albertus-Magnus Gymnasium, Goethe-Gymnasium)

2003 - 2023. First Systematic-Empirical Research of Vittoria Colonna, her Biography, her Sonnets, her letters,the documents of her contemporaries.

ISBN: 978-3-7450-4134-7

Empirical Biographic Study of her Active Life, but above all of her Spiritual and Intellectual Life exclusively grounded on Primary Texts

The English Version of the Empirical Biographic Study was bought by Libraries and Universities worldwide (also by the Library of the American Congress, by the University Libraries of  Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Princeton, Toronto, Padua, Rome, Salerno, Edinburgh etc.

2014  2nd Edition: 24.05.2017

ISBN: 978-3-7450-3641-1

A Belletristic Biography

Subordination of either sex to the other is unjust and has been one of the main Obstacles to the Progress of Mankind
JOHN STUART MILL

1st Edition 19.05.2017

ISBN: 978-3-753124-39-1

The First Empirical Systematic Representation of Vittoria Colonna’s RIME
Text-Centred Interpretation of 60 Sonnets
Grouped in Macro Themes

Focussing
The Poet’s Authenticity, her references to her Poet Father Petrarch, to whom she owes: Her courage to Self-Reference, to Authenticity, and to Individualised Poetology.

26.11.2020

ISBN: 978-3-753118-23-9

E sereno dal bel Lume
Il Desio

Selected Sonnets
Translation Interpretation

1st Edition 10. November 2020 softcover

ISBN: 978-3-756502-09-7

Mio Singolarissimo Amico

Translation Interpretation

SEVEN SPONTANEOUS LETTERS

TWO by MICHELANGELO and FIVE by VITTORIA COLONNA, THE ONLY AUTHENTIC DOCUMENTS OF THEIR RELATIONSHIP, which is traced in LETTERS, VISITS, DRAWINGS, CAPOLAVORI, in HIS poems and in HER SONNETS.

30.05.2022

ISBN: 978-3-758405-54-9

Brilliant letters are this warrior's wife's weapons, when facing the challenges of war by untiring political activism. In an epistolary showdown with the emperor, Vittoria Colonna is demanding the belated reward for the Victor of Pavia, her husband. As his diplomat at the papal curia, she is granting thrilling insights in fourteen letters to Giberti, the Datarius of Pope Clement VII, who nominated her Governor of the rebellious papal town of Benevent, reasoning: " because you stand out of the female sex."

18.09.2023

ISBN: 978-3-754964-39-2

As Female Genius is still regarded as a Feminist phantasm, I have tried to substantiate FEMALE GENIUS as a PHENOMENON by distilling the common features of female geniuses of different ages.

30.03.2022