Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina ( 1525 – 2 February 1594) was an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known 16th-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition. He had a lasting influence on the development of church music, and his work is considered as the culmination of Renaissance polyphony.
Margherita Colonna
Margherita's followers formed a loose community on Mt. Prenestino above Palestrina. Seven years before her death, she was afflicted with an ulcer, from which she suffered until her death. She died on December 30, 1280.