Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta was an Italian condottiero and nobleman, a member of the House of Malatesta and lord of Rimini and Fano from 1432. He commanded the Venetian forces in the 1465 campaign a
Portrait of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta by Piero della Francesca
Fresco with Galeazzo Maria Sforza (right), by Benozzo Gozzoli
Sigismund in armor by Pisanello - Museo Correr
Sigismondo Malatesta, fresco by Piero della Francesca.
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The Cantos is a long modernist poem by Ezra Pound, written in 109 canonical sections in addition to a number of drafts and fragments added as a supplement at the request of the poem's American publish
Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta
…Hutton's novel and Charles Emile Yriarte's Un condottiere au XV Siècle (1882) were among the main sources of American poet Ezra Pound's Malatesta Cantos (The Cantos 8–11), first published in 1923. These are an admiring albeit fragmentary account of Malatesta's career as a warrior, lover and patron. Largely influenced…
Opening page of the first American edition, published 1933
Venice: "Flat water before me, / and the trees growing in water, / Marble trunks out of stillness, / On past the palazzi, / in the stillness, The light now, not of the sun" (Canto XVII)
Thomas Jefferson, who was, in Pound's view, a new Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta.