Vittoria Colonna was a godseeker sans pareil. The timeless humanity of this unusual woman is the fascinating aspect of her Rime Spirituali. A less theological and more anthropological analysis of her so-called spiritual but also intellectual poetry is the adequate approach for a poetess, who focusses her inner life as a godseeker on the way, instead of estranging us with poetising mystic fulfilment, which has always been withheld from her, as it is withheld from us. In her Rime Spirituali, we experience a Renaissance Poetess, who, inspired by timeless Humanism, enters with us into intimate discoursing, because she shares our consciousness.-