Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi de, celebrated composer of sacred music, surnamed the Prince of Music, born at Palestrina; resided chiefly at Rome, where he wrought a revolution in church music, produced a number of masses which at once raised him to the foremost rank among composers; was the author of a well-known Stabat Mater (1524‒1594).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Palestrina * Paley, Frederick Althorp