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unusual facts about Colonna



Battle of Bicocca

By January, the French had lost Alessandria, Pavia, and Como; and Francesco II Sforza, bringing further German reinforcements, had slipped past a Venetian force at Bergamo to join Colonna in Milan.

Economy of Norfolk, Virginia

Major private shipyards located in Norfolk include: BAE Systems Ship Repair, Colonna's Shipyard, and NASSCO.

Fabio Colonna

Colonna was also interested in music, inventing a stringed instrument, the pentecontachordon, having 50 strings in which the octave is divided into 17 parts and the tone into 3 parts.

Francesco Caracciolo-class battleship

Marcantonio Colonna was laid down on 3 March 1915 at the Odero Shipyard in Sestri Ponente.

Francesco Colonna

In Ian Caldwell's and Dustin Thomason's book, The Rule of Four, Francesco Colonna is said to be a Roman, rather than a monk and the true author of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili.

Genzano di Roma

The Cistercians and the Colonna alternatively ruled Genzano until 1563, when the castle was ceded for 150,000 scudos to the Massimi, from which it was bought by Giuliano Cesarini.

Giugliano in Campania

Lords of the city were, in sequence, the Vulcano, Filomarino, Pignatelli, D'Aquino, Pinelli and Colonna.

Guillaume de Nogaret

The great Colonna house, at bitter feud with the Gaetani, was his strongest ally, and Sciarra Colonna accompanied Nogaret to Anagni, Boniface's birthplace.

Hereditary officers of the Roman Curia

This position had been shared jointly by the Princes Orsini and Colonna, but the former was deprived by Pius XII after obtaining a divorce and the title was conferred upon Prince Torlonia, Prince of Fucino, Canino and Musignano of the Torlonia Family.

Lodewijk Heyligen

Their relationship can be traced back to the year 1330, when Petrarch was visiting bishop Giacomo Colonna in Lombez.

Marcantonio V Colonna

Marcantonio V Colonna (1606/10 – 1659) was an Italian nobleman of the Colonna family and Prince of Paliano.

Niccolò Turrisi Colonna

Niccolò Turrisi Colonna (August 10, 1817 - May 13, 1889), baron of Buonvicino, was a Sicilian politician from Palermo.

Papal conclave, 1521–22

The conclave was marked by the early candidacies of cardinal-nephew Giulio de'Medici (future Pope Clement VII) and Alessandro Farnese (future Pope Paul III), although the Colonna and other cardinals blocked their election.

Porphyria's Lover

Browning's friend and fellow poet Bryan Procter acknowledged basing his 1820 "Marcian Colonna" on this source, but added a new detail; after the murder, the killer sits up all night with his victim.

Ptolemy I of Tusculum

Soon, Ptolemy, along with the Berald of Farfa (abbot of Farfa) and Peter Colonna, rebelled against papal authority.

Sciarra Colonna

Sciarrillo Colonna and Guillaume de Nogaret (lawyer and royal advisor of Philip IV) were to arrest the pope and bring him to France to stand trial, but this attempt failed.

Stefano Colonna

Stefano Colonna the Elder (1265 - c. 1348) was son of Giovanni Colonna and one of the most important political figures in Rome in the first half of the 14th century.

Teggiano

Teggiano became a fief of other noble families including the Gomez da Silva, the Grimaldi, the Caracciolo, the Villani, the Colonna, the Calà and Schipani.

The Rule of Four

The author of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, Francesco Colonna, was a humanist in Renaissance Florence.

Yvan Colonna

On the 6th of February 1998 at 9:05 pm, the prefect of Corsica, Claude Érignac, was assassinated as he exited a theatre onto rue Colonna-d'Ornano in Ajaccio.

However, an infrared camera set in the mountains of Corsica, near Vico as surveillance of a "bergerie", a traditional Corsican stone hut, yielded evidence that Colonna was hiding here.

Yvan Colonna is a Corsican nationalist convicted of assassinating the prefect of Corsica, Claude Érignac on 6 February 1998.


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