Giovanni Malatesta
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Giovanni Malatesta, also known as Giovanni, lo Sciancato, sometimes also called by the diminutive Gianciotto, was the second son of Malatesta da Verucchio of Rimini.
Gianciotto Discovers Paolo and Francesca by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres.
Paolo Malatesta
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Paolo Malatesta, also known as il Bello, was the third son of Malatesta da Verucchio, Lord of Rimini. He is best known for the story of his affair with Francesca da Polenta, portrayed by Dante in a fa
Giovanni Malatesta
…of 1285, recorded in Dante's Inferno: upon finding his wife, Francesca da Polenta (Francesca da Rimini), in adulterous embrace with his own brother (Paolo Malatesta), he killed them both with his own hands. He captured Pesaro in 1294, and ruled it as podestà until his death…
Paolo and Francesca, by Ernst Klimt (c. 1890)
Francesca da Rimini (1837), by William Dyce
The Death of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta by Alexandre Cabanel (1870)
Blazon of Malatesta (from Pompeo Litta)