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See also:COLONNA, See also:VITTORIA (1490-1547) , marchioness of See also:Pescara, See also:Italian poet, daughter of Fabrizio Colonna, See also:grand See also:- CONSTABLE (0. Fr. connestable, Fr. connetable, Med. Lat. comestabilis, conestabilis, constabularius, from the Lat. comes stabuli, count of the stable)
- CONSTABLE, ARCHIBALD (1774-1827)
- CONSTABLE, HENRY (1562-1613)
- CONSTABLE, JOHN (1776-1837)
- CONSTABLE, SIR MARMADUKE (c. 1455-1518)
constable of the See also:kingdom of See also:Naples, and of See also:Anna da Montefeltro, was See also:born at See also:Marino, a See also:fief of the Colonna See also:family. Betrothed when four years old at the instance of See also:Ferdinand, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of Naples, to Ferrante de Avalos, son of the See also:marquis of Pescara, she received the highest See also:education and gave See also:early See also:- PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)
proof of a love of letters. Her See also:hand was sought by many suitors, including the See also:dukes of See also:Savoy and See also:Braganza, but at nineteen, by her own ardent See also:desire, she was married to de Avalos on the See also:island of See also:Ischia. There the couple resided until 1511, when her See also:husband offered his See also:sword to the See also:League against the See also:French. He was taken prisoner at the See also:battle of See also:Ravenna (1512) and conveyed to See also:France. During the months of detention and the See also:long years of campaigning which followed, Vittoria and Ferrante corresponded in the most passionate terms both in See also:prose and See also:verse. They saw each other but seldom, for Ferrante was one of the most active and brilliant captains of See also:Charles V.; but Vittoria's See also:influence was sufficient to keep him from joining the projected league against the See also:emperor after the battle of See also:Pavia (1525), and to make him refuse the See also:crown of Naples offered to him as the See also:price of his See also:treason. In the See also:month of See also:November of the same See also:year he died of his wounds at See also:Milan. Vittoria, who was hastening to tend him, received the See also:news of his See also:death at See also:Viterbo; she halted and turned off to See also:Rome, and after a brief stay departed for Ischia, where she remained for several years. She refused several suitors, and began to produce those Rime spirituali which See also:form so distinct a feature in her See also:works. In 1529 she returned to Rome, and spent the next few years between that See also:city, See also:Orvieto, Ischia and other places. In 1537 we find her at See also:Ferrara, where she made many See also:friends and helped to establish a Capuchin monastery at the instance of the reforming See also:- MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
- MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
- MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
- MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)
monk Bernardino See also:Ochino, who after-wards became a See also:Protestant. In 1539 she was back in Rome, where, besides winning the esteem of Cardinals Reginald See also:Pole and See also:Contarini, she became the See also:object of a passionate friendship on the See also:part of See also:Michelangelo, then in his sixty-See also:fourth year. The See also:great artist addressed some of his finest sonnets to her, made drawings for her, and spent long See also:hours in her society. Her removal to Orvieto and Viterbo in 1541, on the occasion of her See also:brother Ascanio Colonna's revolt against See also:Paul III., produced no See also:change in their relations, and they continued to visit and correspond as before. She returned to Rome in 1544, staying as usual at the See also:convent of See also:San Silvestro, and died there on the 25th of See also:February 1547.
See also:Cardinal See also:Bembo, See also:Luigi See also:Alamanni and Baldassare See also:Castiglione were among her See also:literary friends. She was also on intimate terms with many of the Italian Protestants, such as Pietro See also:Carnesecchi, Juan de See also:Valdes and Ochino, but she died before the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church crisis in See also:Italy became acute, and, although she was an See also:advocate of religious reform, there is no See also:reason to believe that she herself became a Protestant. Her See also:life was a beautiful one, and goes far to counteract the impression of the universal corruption of the Italian See also:Renaissance conveyed by such careers as those of the See also:Borgia. Her amatory and elegiac poems, which are the fruits of a sympathetic and dainty imitative See also:gift rather than of any strong See also:original See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent, were printed at See also:Parma in 1538; a third edition, containing sixteen of her Rime Spirituali, in which religious themes are treated in Italian, was published at See also:Florence soon afterwards; and a fourth, including a still larger proportion of the pious See also:element, was issued at See also:Venice in 1544.
A great See also:deal has been written about Vittoria Colonna, but perhaps the best See also:account of her life is A. Luzio's Vittoria Colonna (See also:Modena, 1885) ; A. von See also:Reumont's Vita di Vittoria Colonna (Italian corrected edit., See also:Turin, 1883) is also excellent; F. le Fevre's Vittoria Colonna (See also:Paris, 1856) is somewhat inaccurate, but T. See also:Roscoe's Vittoria Colonna (See also:London, 1868) may be recommended to See also:English readers; P. E. See also:Visconti's Le Rime di Vittoria Colonna (Rome, 1846) deals with her poems. (L.
End of Article: COLONNA, VITTORIA (1490-1547)
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