Palestrina (ancient Praeneste; Ancient Greek: Πραίνεστος, Prainestos) is a modern Italian city and comune (municipality) with a population of about 22...

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (between 3 February 1525 and 2 February 1526 – 2 February 1594) was an Italian composer of late Renaissance music. The...

Palestrina is a city in Lazio, Italy. Palestrina may also refer to: 4850 Palestrina, a minor planet Palestrina (opera), a 1917 opera by Hans Pfitzner Palestrina...

The Palestrina Pietà is a marble sculpture of the Italian Renaissance, dating from c. 1555 and now in the Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence. It was formerly...

Palestrina Cathedral (Italian: Duomo di Palestrina; Cattedrale di Sant'Agapito martire) is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in Palestrina, in the region...

16-year-old Agapitus, who may have been a member of the noble Anicia family of Palestrina, was condemned to death, under the prefect Antiochus and the Emperor Aurelian...

Abundius of Palestrina is a saint of the Christian church. His feast day is celebrated on October 29 in Palestrina. Holweck, F. G., A Biographical Dictionary...

The Palestrina Mosaic or Nile mosaic of Palestrina is a late Hellenistic floor mosaic depicting the Nile in its passage from the Blue Nile to the Mediterranean...

Sicut cervus is a motet for four voices by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. It sets the beginning of Psalm 42, Psalmus XLI in the Latin version of the...

Palestrina is an opera by the German composer Hans Pfitzner, first performed in 1917. The composer referred to it as a Musikalische Legende (musical legend)...