Malatesta, Sigismondo Pandolfo
- Malatesta, Sigismondo Pandolfo
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▪ ruler of Rimini
born 1417
died Oct. 9, 1468, Rimini [Italy]
feudal ruler and condottiere who is often regarded as the prototype of the Italian Renaissance prince.
Sigismondo was one of three illegitimate sons of Pandolfo Malatesta, who had ruled over Brescia and Bergamo from about 1404 to 1421. Sigismondo was legitimated by Pope Martin V, but he felt no loyalty toward the papacy, which deprived his family of many of their lands in 1430. From 1433 to 1463, Malatesta sold his military talents as a condottiere (mercenary captain) to all sides in the Italian wars of that period. As the feudal lord of Rimini, however, he was a generous and cultivated patron of writers and artists. He commissioned the architect Leon Battista Alberti to build the most famous monument in Rimini, the Church of San Francesco (also known as the Tempio Malatestiano).
Malatesta won popularity as a ruler and distinction as a mercenary captain, but he also gained a reputation for impiety, vice, and brutality. He owed part of this reputation to systematic defamation by his most powerful enemy, Pope Pius II. The most constant feature of Malatesta's character was impetuosity, which made him impatient of keeping faith with princes more powerful than himself. This was why, after years of feuds with his detested rival Federico di Montefeltro, Malatesta stood virtually alone when Pius II excommunicated him and sought his overthrow in 1461. By a peace agreement in 1463, Malatesta lost most of his dominions but was allowed to keep Rimini until his death.
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