Tommaso Luigi da Vittoria, the Italian name for Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611), Spanish composer.
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Vittoria Colonna (1490-1547), marchioness of Pescara[?], Italian poet, daughter of Fabrizio Colonna[?], grand constable of the kingdom of Naples, and of Anna da Montefeltro[?], was born at Marino[?], a fief of the Colonna family.
Betrothed when four years old at the instance of Ferdinand, king of Naples, to Ferrante de Avalos[?], son of the marquis of Pescara, she received the highest education and gave early proof of a love of letters.
Vittoria, who was hastening to tend him, received the news of his death at Viterbo; she halted and turned off to Rome, and after a brief stay departed for Ischia, where she remained for several years.
In 1509 Vittoria was married to Ferrante Francesco d'Avalos, Marquis of Pescara, a Neapolitan nobleman of Spanish origin, who was one of the chief generals of the Emperor Charles V.
Vittoria earnestly dissuaded him from this scheme, declaring (as her cousin, Cardinal Pompeo Colonna, tells us) that she "preferred to die the wife of a most brave marquis and a most upright general, than to live the consort of a king dishonoured with any stain of infamy".
VISCONTI, Rime di Vittoria Colonna (Rome, 1840); LUZIO, Vittoria Colonna (Mantua, 1884); FERRERO AND MÜLLER, Carteggio di Vittoria Colonna, Marchesa di Pescara (Florence, 1892); REUMONT, tr.
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