House of Malatesta
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The House of Malatesta was an Italian family that ruled over Rimini from 1295 until 1500, as well as other lands and towns in Romagna and holding high positions in the government of cities in present-
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Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta (1417–1468), by Piero della Francesca
Palazzo dell'Arengo, Rimini
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.
House of Malatesta
…made himself sole master of the city ("signore") after the expulsion of the family's Ghibelline rivals, the Parcitadi, in 1295. His hunchback son Giovanni Malatesta is chiefly famous because he murdered his wife Francesca da Polenta and his younger brother Paolo in 1285, having discovered them in adultery, and the…
Gianciotto Discovers Paolo and Francesca by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres.