Note *66 — Chapter IV

I think Dennistoun is wrong here. Galeotto, called Il beato, was the son of Pandolfo Malatesta by Allegra di Mori, and was born 1411. Sigismondo was his son by Madonna Antonia, and was born in 1417. See Battaglini, Basini Parenensis Poetæ Opera (Arimini, 1744), vol. II., p. 274; Clementini, Raccolto Istorico della Fondatione di Rimino (Rimini, 1617), vol. II., p. 299; and Edward Hutton, op. cit., p. 16. Novello was his son also by Madonna Antonia, and was born in 1418. Neither of these ladies was Pandolfo's wife. Pandolfo died before his brother Carlo. On Carlo's death the Malatesta territory was held in trust for a time by women till Galeotto succeeded. On his death the same thing happened; but at last Sigismondo took Rimini when he was fifteen, and Novello had Cesena. It is true that Novello predeceased Sigismondo, though only by a few years, but by then Sigismondo was fighting for his life, having lost everything save Rimini itself. All that Dennistoun says of the Malatesti is inaccurate and clouded by prejudice.