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Prospero Colonna, the Glossary

Prospero Colonna (1452–1523), sometimes referred to as Prosper Colonna, was an Italian condottiero who was active during the Italian wars and served France, Naples, Spain, the Duchy of Milan, the Papal States and the Holy Roman Empire Along with his rival Bartolomeo d'Alviano, he is considered the best Italian generals of his generation.^[1]

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1452 births
Colonna family
Papal States military personnel
People from Lanuvio
People of the Italian Wars of 1499–1504

Bartolomeo d'Alviano

Bartolomeo d'Alviano (c. 1455 – October 1515) was an Italian condottiero and captain who distinguished himself in the defence of the Venetian Republic against the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian. Prospero Colonna and Bartolomeo d'Alviano are 15th-century condottieri, 16th-century condottieri, military leaders of the Italian Wars and People of the Italian Wars of 1499–1504.

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Battle of Bicocca

The Battle of Bicocca or La Bicocca (Battaglia della Bicocca) was fought on 27 April 1522, during the Italian War of 1521–26.

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Battle of Cerignola

The Battle of Cerignola was fought on 28 April 1503 between Spanish and French armies outside the town of Cerignola, Apulia, Kingdom of Naples (now in modern-day Italy), approximately west of Bari.

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Battle of Garigliano (1503)

The Battle of Garigliano was fought on 29 December 1503 between a Spanish army under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba and a French army commanded by Ludovico II, Marquis of Saluzzo.

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Battle of La Motta (1513)

The Battle of La Motta, also known as the Battle of Schio, Battle of Vicenza or Battle of Creazzo, took place at Schio, in the Italian region of Veneto, Republic of Venice, on 7 October 1513, between the forces of the Republic of Venice and a combined force of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire, and was a significant battle of the War of the League of Cambrai.

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Battle of Marignano

The Battle of Marignano was the last major engagement of the War of the League of Cambrai and took place on 13–14 September 1515, near the town now called Melegnano, 16 km southeast of Milan.

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Brazen bull

The brazen bull, also known as the bronze bull, Sicilian bull, or bull of Phalaris, was a torture and execution device designed in ancient Greece.

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Castel Nuovo

Castel Nuovo ("New Castle"), often called Maschio Angioino ("Angevin Keep"), is a medieval castle located in front of Piazza Municipio and the city hall (Palazzo San Giacomo) in central Naples, Campania, Italy.

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Castel Sant'Angelo

The Mausoleum of Hadrian, also known as Castel Sant'Angelo (English: Castle of the Holy Angel), is a towering rotunda (cylindrical building) in Parco Adriano, Rome, Italy.

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Ceccano

Ceccano is a town and comune in the province of Frosinone, Lazio, central Italy, in the Latin Valley.

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Charles VIII of France

Charles VIII, called the Affable (l'Affable; 30 June 1470 – 7 April 1498), was King of France from 1483 to his death in 1498.

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Colonna family

The House of Colonna, also known as Sciarrillo or Sciarra, is an Italian noble family, forming part of the papal nobility.

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Condottiero

Condottieri (condottiero or condottiere) were Italian military leaders during the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period.

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Duchy of Milan

The Duchy of Milan (Ducato di Milano; Ducaa de Milan) was a state in Northern Italy, created in 1395 by Gian Galeazzo Visconti, then the lord of Milan, and a member of the important Visconti family, which had been ruling the city since 1277.

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Fabrizio Colonna

Fabrizio Colonna (– 18 March 1520) was an Italian condottiero, a member of the powerful Colonna family. Prospero Colonna and Fabrizio Colonna are 15th-century condottieri, 16th-century condottieri, Colonna family, military leaders of the Italian Wars and People of the Italian Wars of 1499–1504.

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Fanny Bury Palliser

Fanny Bury Palliser (1805–1878) was an English writer on art and lace.

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Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua

Federico II of Gonzaga (17 May 1500 – 28 August 1540) was the ruler of the Italian city of Mantua (first as Marquis, later as Duke) from 1519 until his death.

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Ferdinand II of Naples

Ferdinand II (Ferdinando II, known also as Ferrante II and Ferrandino; 26 June 1467 – 7 September 1496) was King of Naples from 1495 to 1496.

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Fernando d'Ávalos

Fernando Francesco d'Ávalos d'Aquino, 5th Marquess of Pescara (in Italian. Ferrante Francesco d'Ávalos), (11 November 1489 – 3 December 1525), was an Italian (Neapolitan) condottiero and nobleman of Spanish (Aragonese) origin. Prospero Colonna and Fernando d'Ávalos are 16th-century condottieri and military leaders of the Italian Wars.

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Fondi

Fondi (Fundi; Southern Laziale: Fùnn) is a city and comune in the province of Latina, Lazio, central Italy, halfway between Rome and Naples.

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Forlì

Forlì (Furlè; Forum Livii) is a comune (municipality) and city in Emilia-Romagna, Northern Italy, and is, together with Cesena, the capital of the Province of Forlì-Cesena.

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Francis I of France

Francis I (er|; Françoys; 12 September 1494 – 31 March 1547) was King of France from 1515 until his death in 1547.

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Frederick of Naples

Frederick (April 19, 1452 – November 9, 1504), sometimes called Frederick IV or Frederick of Aragon, was the last king of Naples from the Neapolitan branch of the House of Trastámara, ruling from 1496 to 1501. Prospero Colonna and Frederick of Naples are 1452 births and People of the Italian Wars of 1499–1504.

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General officer

A general officer is an officer of high rank in the armies, and in some nations' air forces, space forces, and marines or naval infantry.

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Giovanni delle Bande Nere

Ludovico de' Medici, also known as Giovanni delle Bande Nere (6 April 1498 – 30 November 1526) was an Italian condottiero. Prospero Colonna and Giovanni delle Bande Nere are 16th-century condottieri and military leaders of the Italian Wars.

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Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba

Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba (1 September 1453 – 2 December 1515) was a Spanish general and statesman who led successful military campaigns during the Conquest of Granada and the Italian Wars. Prospero Colonna and Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba are military leaders of the Italian Wars and People of the Italian Wars of 1499–1504.

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Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet

Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet (c. 1488 – 24 February 1525) was a French soldier. Prospero Colonna and Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet are military leaders of the Italian Wars.

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Holy Roman Empire

The Holy Roman Empire, also known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation after 1512, was a polity in Central and Western Europe, usually headed by the Holy Roman Emperor.

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Ischia

Ischia is a volcanic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea.

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Italian War of 1521–1526

The Italian War of 1521–1526, sometimes known as the Four Years' War, (Sixième guerre d'Italie) was a part of the Italian Wars.

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Italian Wars

The Italian Wars were a series of conflicts fought between 1494 and 1559, mostly in the Italian Peninsula, but later expanding into Flanders, the Rhineland and Mediterranean Sea.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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Itri

Itri is a small city and comune the province of Latina, Lazio, central Italy.

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Kingdom of France

The Kingdom of France is the historiographical name or umbrella term given to various political entities of France in the medieval and early modern period.

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Kingdom of Naples

The Kingdom of Naples (Regnum Neapolitanum; Regno di Napoli; Regno 'e Napule), was a state that ruled the part of the Italian Peninsula south of the Papal States between 1282 and 1816.

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Lanuvio

Lanuvio is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Rome in the Italian region of Latium, located about southeast of Rome, on the Alban Hills.

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Latium

Latium is the region of central western Italy in which the city of Rome was founded and grew to be the capital city of the Roman Empire.

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Lazio

Lazio or Latium (from the original Latin name) is one of the 20 administrative regions of Italy.

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Louis XII

Louis XII (27 June 14621 January 1515) was King of France from 1498 to 1515 and King of Naples from 1501 to 1504. Prospero Colonna and Louis XII are military leaders of the Italian Wars and People of the Italian Wars of 1499–1504.

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Maximilian Sforza

Maximilian Maria Sforza (Italian: Massimiliano Maria Sforza; 25 January 1493 – 25 May 1530) was a Duke of Milan from the Sforza family, the son of Ludovico Sforza. Prospero Colonna and Maximilian Sforza are military leaders of the Italian Wars.

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Milan

Milan (Milano) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, and the second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome.

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Minturno

Minturno is a city and comune in southern Lazio, Italy, situated on the north west bank of the Garigliano (known in antiquity as the Liris).

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Naples

Naples (Napoli; Napule) is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's administrative limits as of 2022.

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Odet of Foix, Viscount of Lautrec

Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec (1485 – 15 August 1528) was a French military leader. Prospero Colonna and Odet of Foix, Viscount of Lautrec are military leaders of the Italian Wars.

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Orsini family

The House of Orsini is an Italian noble family that was one of the most influential princely families in medieval Italy and Renaissance Rome.

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Paliano

Paliano is a town and comune in the province of Frosinone, in the Lazio region of central Italy.

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Papal States

The Papal States (Stato Pontificio), officially the State of the Church (Stato della Chiesa; Status Ecclesiasticus), were a conglomeration of territories on the Apennine Peninsula under the direct sovereign rule of the Pope from 756 to 1870.

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Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard

Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard (c. 1476 – 30 April 1524) was a French knight and military leader at the transition between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, generally known as the Chevalier de Bayard. Prospero Colonna and Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard are military leaders of the Italian Wars and People of the Italian Wars of 1499–1504.

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Pope Alexander VI

Pope Alexander VI (born Rodrigo de Borja; 1 January 1431 – 18 August 1503) (epithet: Valentinus ("The Valencian")) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 11 August 1492 until his death in 1503. Born into the prominent Borgia family in Xàtiva in the Kingdom of Valencia under the Crown of Aragon (now Spain), Rodrigo studied law at the University of Bologna. Prospero Colonna and Pope Alexander VI are People of the Italian Wars of 1499–1504.

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Pope Julius II

Pope Julius II (Iulius II; Giulio II; born Giuliano della Rovere; 5 December 144321 February 1513) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 1503 to his death, in February 1513.

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Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus

Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, surnamed Cunctator (280 – 203 BC), was a Roman statesman and general of the third century BC.

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Ramón de Cardona

Ramon Folc de Cardona i Anglesola (Italian: Raimondo di Cardona) (1467 – 10 March 1522) was a Catalan general and politician, who served as the viceroy of Naples during the Italian Wars and commanded the Spanish forces in Italy during the War of the League of Cambrai. Prospero Colonna and Ramón de Cardona are military leaders of the Italian Wars.

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Republic of Genoa

The Republic of Genoa (Repúbrica de Zêna; Repubblica di Genova; Res Publica Ianuensis) was a medieval and early modern maritime republic from the years 1099 to 1797 in Liguria on the northwestern Italian coast.

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Riario

The House of Riario, sometimes referred to as Riario-Sforza, is an Italian noble family from Savona, near Genoa.

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Rome

Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy.

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Sonnino

Sonnino is a town and comune in the province of Latina, in the Lazio region of central Italy.

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Spanish Empire

The Spanish Empire, sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy or the Catholic Monarchy, was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976.

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Sperlonga

Sperlonga (locally Spelonghe) is a coastal town in the province of Latina, Italy, about halfway between Rome and Naples.

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Velletri

Velletri (Velitrae; Velester) is an Italian comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome, approximately 40 km to the southeast of the city centre, located in the Alban Hills, in the region of Lazio, central Italy.

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Vespasiano Colonna

Vespasiano Colonna Vespasiano Colonna (c. 1485 – 13 March 1528) was an Italian nobleman and condottiero, a member of the Colonna family. Prospero Colonna and Vespasiano Colonna are 16th-century condottieri, Colonna family and People excommunicated by the Catholic Church.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospero_Colonna

Also known as Colonna, Prospero, Prosper Colonna, Prospero Cardinal Colonna, Prospero Colonna (condottiero).

, Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, Ramón de Cardona, Republic of Genoa, Riario, Rome, Sonnino, Spanish Empire, Sperlonga, Velletri, Vespasiano Colonna.

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1452 births

Colonna family

Papal States military personnel

People from Lanuvio

People of the Italian Wars of 1499–1504

References