Note 36 — Chapter V
Reading edition
L'honneur d'avoir été, entre toutes les poëtes, la première à composer un recueil de poësies sacrées, appartient, toute entière, à Vittoria Colonna. (See Ginguené.) Her masterpieces, in this style, are said to be the sonnet on the death of our Saviour.—
"Gli Angeli eletti al gran bene infinito;"
and the hymn
"Padre Eterno del cielo!"
which is sublime: it may be found in Mathias's Collection, vol. iii.