the name of one of the noblest families of modern Italy, which has produced princes, popes, cardinals, warriors, and authors, who have figured in the history of their country. One of the most eminent of these was,

VITTORIA COLONNA, daughter of the high constable of Naples, and wife of the celebrated warrior Davalos Marquese de Pescara, the faithful general of the Emperor Charles V. Her talents, her beauty, and her virtues, have been extolled by Michel Angelo, Ariosto, and other celebrated poets. When Pescara died in 1548, his accomplished widow retired to a convent, and there indulged her melancholy and her religious sentiments in beautiful poetical effusions to the memory of her husband, and on spiritual subjects. These appeared at Venice in 1548, under the title of Rime Spirituali di Victoria Colonna. She was born in 1490, and died at Rome in 1549. Tiraboschi remarks, that she was called "a model for Italian matrons."

Giovanni Paolo, chapel-master of St Petronio at Bologna, and president of the Philharmonic Academy there, was born at Brescia about the middle of the seventeenth century. The music-school which he established at Bologna produced many good musicians; among them Clari. Most of Colonna's works are for the church, and are among the most remarkable compositions of the seventeenth century. Doctor Boyce considered Colonna as Handel's model for choruses accompanied with many instrumental parts different from the vocal. (G.F.G.)

CAPE. See ATTICA.