Pope Julius II
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".