Note 21 — Chapter I · MARRIAGE
George Herbert Ely translation
[Vittoria Colonna (1490-1547) was the most illustrious member of an old and illustrious Roman family said to derive its name from the column to which Christ was bound for His scourging. At the age of seventeen she married the Marquis of Pescara, and when he died of wounds received at Pavia (1525) she refused many offers of marriage, and devoted herself to literature and works of piety. She wrote poems in imitation of Petrarch.]