Vittoria, Alessandro, 1525-1608, Italian sculptor. A leader of the Venetian Renaissance and a student of Sansovino, Vittoria was influenced by the mannerism of Ammanati and Michelangelo. He was celebrated for his portrait busts and decorative work, much of which was created for the restoration of the Palazzo Ducale. Vittoria worked in collaboration with Palladio and Veronese on the Villa Barbaro at Maser.

Vittoria, city (1991 pop. 55,280), SE Sicily, Italy; founded 1607. It is an important center of wine and olive oil production and export.

Colonna, Vittoria, marchesa di Pescara, 1492-1547, Italian poet; daughter of Fabrizio Colonna. Her love for her husband, Ferrante d'Avalos, is the subject of part of her lamenting verse. After his death (1525) she lived in convents, devoting herself to religious reform. The larger part of her work treats religious themes. In her later years she was a close friend of Michelangelo. For a translation of her verse, see Lorna de' Lucchi, An Anthology of Italian Poems (1922).

Vittoria may refer to:

• Vittoria, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada
• Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
• Vitoria, Brazil
• Battle of Vitoria, an 1813 battle in Spain during the Napoleonic Wars
• Vittoria, Italy, a town in the Sicilian province of Ragusa
• Vittoria, New South Wales, a small town in Australia, near Bathurst, New South Wales
• F.C. Vittoria, a Serie C association football club from Vittoria, Italy
• The Italian equivalent of Victoria (name)
• Vittoria (novel) written in 1867 by George Meredith
• Vittoria Vetra - the character in Dan Brown's novel Angels and Demons
• The Italian word for victory.
• Tommaso Luigi da Vittoria, the Italian name for Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611), Spanish composer.

See also

• Vitoria (disambiguation)