Giovanni Colonna (cardinal, 1456–1508)

Giovanni Colonna (1456 – 26 September 1508) was a Roman Catholic cardinal of the High Renaissance period, a member of the famous Colonna family.

Colonna was born in Rome in 1456, a grandson of Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna, Count of the Marsi [it; ru].

[1][2] He was created a cardinal by Pope Sixtus IV in the consistory of 15 May 1480 and was made bishop of Rieti on 10 November of that year.

[3][4] Colonna's funeral oration was written by Battista Casali.

[6][7] Cardinal Colonna appears in the 2011 TV series Borgia, played by Karel Dobrý.