COLOMNA, FABIO, a very learned botanist, born at Naples about the year 1567. He became skilled in the languages, in music, designing, painting, and the mathematics; and died about the middle of the 17th century. He wrote, 1. Φυτοθεαυτες, seu Plantarum aliquot (ac piscium) historia. 2. Minus cognitatum rariorumque stirpium exhermetis; itemque de aquatilibus, aliisque nonnullis animalibus, libellus; and other works.