Colonna
Colonna names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Colonna PROSPERO, son of Antonio Colonna
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
PROSPERO, son of Antonio Colonna, prince of Salerno. He assisted Charles VIII. of France to conquer Naples, but subsequently aided in retaking it for the House of Aragon. He served under the great Gonsalvo, and was charged by him to conduct Cesare Borgia prisoner to Spain. In 1513 Prospero defeated the Venetians near Vicenza, was captured by the French two years later, but won several victories over them in 1521 and the following years. He died in 1523. power, and acquired in Africa the territories of Damaraland and Lüderitzland to the N. of Cape Colony, the Kamerun District, a considerable portion of territory formerly claimed by the Sultan of Zanzibar, the Kilima-Njaro, the greater part of Somaliland, etc.; also in the Pacific a portion of New Guinea, now called Kaiser Wilhelm's Land; the Bismarck Archipelago; and the Caroline, Pelew, and Ladrone (excepting Guam) Islands. These colonies were all lost by the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles. By the terms of the treaty Great Britain was given a mandate for the former German African colonies, Australia administers the Bismarck Archipelago and Kaiser Wilhelm's Land. Denmark's dependencies, Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands, though of considerable extent, are of small value. The United States has acquired Porto Rico, the Philippine and Sulu Islands, the Ladrone Island of Guam; and the Virgin Islands (Danish West Indies) by treaty and purchase ($25,000,000) in 1916.
Colonna a village in the former Papal states
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a village in the former Papal states, which gave its name to one the epoch of reproduction, a higher unity of the most powerful and celebrated arisis formed. In the same way a simple tocratic Roman families. The Colonna cup-shaped sponge, by continuous bud- produced in the Middle Ages many distinguished members, among whom, besides Pope V. side V., were:
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Prospero Colonna's career and his death in 1523 stand exactly as Collier's set them out in 1921; nothing found since has disturbed the outline, though the Collier's text on this page is visibly damaged, with stray sentences from the article on Colonies spliced into it. The family Collier's called "one of the most powerful and celebrated" aristocratic Roman houses is still extant, and the Palazzo Colonna on the Quirinal remains in Colonna hands, its gallery open to visitors on limited days. The clearest loss of standing came in 1968, when Paul VI's reform of the papal household swept away the hereditary court offices the Colonna and Orsini had held for centuries as Prince Assistants to the Throne. The "village in the former Papal states" is now the comune of Colonna in Lazio, a commuter town of some four thousand people on the edge of greater Rome.
Written for this edition, 2026.