Malatesta da Verucchio

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Malatesta da Verucchio (* 1212 in Verucchio , † 1312 in Rimini ) was an Italian condottiere . He was lord of Rimini from 1295 and the founder of the Malatesta dynasty .

He was the father of Giovanni ("Gianciotto") Malatesta († 1304), who killed his wife Francesca da Rimini when she took his handsome brother Paolo Malatesta as a lover - which ensured everyone a place in Dante's Inferno .

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