Information AboutSigismondo Malatesta |
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Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta ( 1417 – 1468 ), popularly known as '''the wolf of Rimini''', was lord of Rimini , Fano , and Cesena from 1432 . He was widely considered by his contemporaries as one of the most daring military leaders in Italy and commanded the Venetian forces in the 1465 campaign against the Ottoman Empire . He was also a Poet and patron of the arts. He was not a religious man, and his Tempio Malatestiano , also known as San Francesco, built in Rimini, by Leon Battista Alberti and decorated by artists including Piero Della Francesca and Agostino Di Duccio , was essentially a monument to Isotta Degli Atti , his lover and third wife. It was a landmark Renaissance building, being the first church to use the Roman Triumphal Arch as part of its structure. Sigismondo's conflicts with the Roman Catholic Church led to the loss of most of his lands at hands of Pope Pius II , who considered him guilty of treachery towards Siena arising from his long-running feud with Federico Da Montefeltro duke of Urbino . Pius actually declared Sigismondo canonised in Hell at one point. In an attempt to reverse this situation, Sigismondo appears to have intended to murder Pius' successor, Pope Paul II (who had continued Pius' policy), in 1468 , but lost his nerve and returned to Rimini, where he died a few months later. Malatesta's reputation (albeit minor) was largely based on Pius II 's perception of him. Beginning in 1922, however, with '' A Draft Of XXX Cantos '', Ezra Pound sought to reconsider Malatesta's contributions to history in a more positive light. SEE ALSO |
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