Pietro Colonna
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- For the theologian, see Pietro Colonna GalatinoPietro Colonna GalatinoPietro Colonna Galatino , also known as Petrus Galatinus, was an Italian Friar Minor, philosopher, theologian and Orientalist.-Biography:Galatino was born at Galatina, in Apulia....
Pietro Colonna (died ca. 1505) was an Italian
Italy
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condottiero.
A member of the Colonna family, line of Palestrina
Palestrina
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, he fought for the Papal States
Papal States
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in the 1480s. In August 1501 he was excommunicated by Pope Alexander VI
Pope Alexander VI
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.