Note *15 — MEMOIRS OF THE DUKES OF URBINO CHAPTER I
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The Malatesti were, without doubt, just as great and beloved as the Montefeltri. Sigismondo was as great and enthusiastic a patron of the arts, and in contemporary opinion a greater soldier than Federigo di Montefeltro. See Edward Hutton, op. cit., p. 86 note 1.