Late in life, Michelangelo nurtured a great platonic love for the poet and noble widow Vittoria Colonna, whom he met in Rome in 1536 or 1538 and who was in her late forties at the time. They wrote sonnets for each other and were in regular contact until she died. These sonnets mostly deal with the spiritual issues that occupied them.[64] Condivi recalls Michelangelos saying that his sole regret in life was that he did not kiss the widows face in the same manner that he had her hand.[46]