in the middle representing D. Marcantonio Colonna, the great hero in 

 the wars against the Turks ; that to the right D. Fabrizio Colonna ; 

 and that to the left D. Filippo Colonna. David Salvagni writes of the 

 older Roman families in his interesting book on Rome in the eighteenth 

 century : " The great legendary and historical families of Rome were 

 always the Conti, Caetani, Colonna and Orsini ; and of these the 

 Colonna was first in magnificence and popularity. A succession of 

 famous Popes and able warriors had raised the house to which they 

 belonged to the prominent position that was acknowledged as the birth- 

 right of the Colonna princes by all the other new and noble families ; 

 and the deeds and daring which brought about this result, the family 

 struggles with the Popes, its partisanship with the Emperor and its 

 adhesion to the Ghibelline faction, have long been matters of history. 

 With the Roman people the Colonna family was always wonderfully 

 popular, and even yet mothers sing their infants to sleep with a nursery 

 ditty which commemorates the mightiness of that mighty house. It 

 runs thus : 



" Che possa avere cinque figli maschi, 

 E tutti quanti di Casa Colonna, 

 Uno papa, I'altro Cardinale, 

 Ed uno arcivesco di Colonia, 

 Ed uno possa avere tanta possanza, 

 Da Levar la corona al re di Franza, 

 E I'altro possa aver tanto valore, 

 Da Levar la corona all'imperatore." 



which may be translated : 



Who would not have five fine sons 

 Such as the Colonna ow^n ; 

 One a Pope, and one a Cardinal, 

 And one Archbishop of Cologne, 

 And one who could take the crown away 

 From the King of France, in open fray — 

 And one who could make the Emperor 

 Grace from his warlike hand implore ? * 



Of the many other great gardens which now remain within the city 

 walls, one of the most important is the garden of the Quirinal Palace. 



* "Rome, Its Princes, Priests and People." By David Silvagni. Translated by Fanny 

 Ma^auglin. (Elliot Stock. 1885,) 



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