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It is chiefly through her close connexion with the great literary movement of the Italian Renaissance and her intimacy with its leading artists and writers, rather than through her own reputation as a poetess, that the name of Vittoria Colonna herself is remembered outside the borders of Italy.
About his mother he is silent. We have no tradition regarding amours in youth or middle age; and only two words dropped by Condivi lead us to conjecture that he was not wholly insensible to the physical attractions of the female. Romancers and legend-makers have, therefore, forced Vittoria Colonna to play the rôle of Juliet in Michelangelo's life-drama.
Had Don John remained at Naples, the issue might have easily been the same. Barbarigo, who sealed the victory with his blood; Colonna, who celebrated a solemn triumph on his return to Rome; Parma, Doria, Giustiniani, Venieri, might each as well have claimed a monopoly of the glory, had not the Pope, at Philip's entreaty, conferred the baton of command upon Don John.
Afterwards Cortes talked about his studies in painting; he didn't get on well, he had no money, and anyway Rome didn't please him at all. Everything seemed wrong to him, absurd, ridiculous. Caesar, after he had said good-bye to him, murmured: "The truth is that we Spaniards are impossible people." Two or three days later Caesar met the Spaniard Cortes in the Piazza Colonna. They bowed.
"Well said! are thy friends ripe for the saddle?" "Eighty of them already tired of idleness and the dull air of Rome, will fly wherever Sir Walter de Montreal wishes." "Hasten, then, bid them mount; we go not hence with the Colonna we leave while they are yet talking! Bid my squires attend me!"
But Rienzi must die. He is still, I hear, shut up in St. Angelo. The Orsini shall storm him there ere the day be much older. Today we possess the Capitol annul all the rebel's laws break up his ridiculous parliament, and put all the government of the city under three senators Rinaldo Orsini, Colonna, and myself; you, my Lord, I trust, we shall fitly provide for." "Oh!
Prince Colonna has come to see his daughter and his son-in-law Prince Gandolphini, a Neopolitan, or if you like, a Sicilian, an old adherent of King Murat's, and a victim of the last revolution. These are the last arrivals at Geneva, and they are not Milanese.
The morning after his death his physician's door was found decorated with garlands of flowers, bearing this inscription: "To the liberator of his country." Giulio di Medici and Pompeo Colonna were again rival candidates.
Ignorance, idleness, vanity, servility, and above all incapacity; these are the pet vices which place it below all the aristocracies in Europe. Should I meet with any exceptions on my road, I shall consider it my duty to point them out. The roots of the Roman nobility are very diverse. The Orsini and the Colonna families descend from the heroes or brigands of the Middle Ages.
Girolama was still a minor, being only thirteen years of age, and her betrothed, Giovanni Andrea, had scarcely reached manhood. He was a son of Gabriello Cesarini and Godina Colonna. By this marriage the noble house of Cesarini was brought into close relations with the Borgia, and later it derived great profit from the alliance.
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