at the beginning of the sixteenth century, pope julius ii gave frascati as a feudal possession to the condottiero marcantonio i colonna, who lived there from 1508 together with his wife lucrezia della rovere (1485–1552), niece of pope julius ii. in 1515 colonna gave frascati its first statute, "statuti e capituli del castello di frascati", under the latin title "populus antiquae civitas tusculi".