A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Arragon, (Jane of)

by Mary Matilda Betham

ARRAGON, (JANE OF), an Italian Lady, Daughter of Ferdinand of Arragon, duke of Montalto, and Wife of Ascanius Colonna, by whom she had the famous Marc Antony Colonna, who vanquished the Turks, at Lepanto. Died 1577.

So remarkable for beauty, wit, and courage, that a large collection of poems in her praise, was published at Venice, in 1555, in the Latin, Greek, Italian, French, Spanish, Sclavonic, Polonese, Hungarian, Hebrew, Chaldean, &c. languages.

Essay on Women, by M. Thomas.