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Colonna

Old and illustrious Italian family that produced popes, cardinals, princes, and generals, and belonged to the Ghibelline party (see Guelph and Ghibelline). Its members included the poet Vittoria Colonna.



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Further, the head of the Colonna family fled to France, made common cause with King Philip IV, and helped him in the invasion of Italy that led to the arrest of Boniface at Anagni and the beginning of the Babylonian Captivity.
Machiavelli's 'Art of War': a reconsideration by Colish, Marcia L. / Renaissance Quarterly
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