Monday, August 9, 2010

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Malatesta, if the historian invents
Pandolfo II a decade has already given to the head of militia

Pandolfo II Malatesta's case is illuminating. They do come true many years after his arrival in the world, namely in 1325 and then when the ten years (1335) have miraculously under the command of the victorious armies ensure that the office of mayor of Fano.

need another Freud to describe the psycho-pathology of the historians who have no common sense in a normal reader of any books. Failing that, it would suffice to those lofty scholars try to count with the fingers. To see that nine or ten is little to guide a troop, although in those days (much missed by those who, ignoring all of history, believe them inspired by the great moral of the West), they were enough to celebrate marriages by reason only policy.
An Italian scholar in 1907 raised the question of the birth of Pandolfo II, brought forward from 1325 to the period 1310-1315. The only mention of this scholar seems to be present in an essay published in Stockholm in 2004.

Pandolfo II disappears in 1373. But also on this date there has been a misunderstanding, fortunately less common than on birth.
Take an old edition of the Latin letters of Francesco Petrarca, one edited by Joseph Fracassetti in 1863 (vol. III, p. 373). The epistle No 27 (28 August 1367) of so-called "ranges", directed to Peter of Bologna, the poet says that things were going quite well when he was saddened by two news, the departure of Pandolfo Malatesta and the death of John Pepoli.
Petrarch hardened intellectual and perhaps only to pass the time, as does the witty intellectual inveterate each believes to be authorized to appear in every circumstance.
He writes (I apologize for the Latin quotation, which can cause hives in those who does not love us): "Omnia enim satis ibant prosperous, and nisi duobus oculis meis abiisset alter, alter obiisset: Pandulphum loquor Dominum, Dominum Iohannem and De Pepolis ...".
The two verbs used by Petrarch (the joke here is an intellectual) are the same except that in the initial letter. "Abir" means to leave, "Obir" instead of pop off.

In brief it offers (in Latin) under the letter of 27, Fracassetti misspelled "De Obitu Pandulphi Malatestae et Iohannis Pepoli" or "the death of Pandolfo and John Pepoli. When this letter translated into Italian 27 (Vol. V, p. 310), Fracassetti corrects himself.
In summary puts it: "On the departure of Pandolfo Malatesta, and the death of John Pepoli. The translation of the Latin Fracassetti pitch that we reported, is as follows: "All I would go to second if it did not come to disturb me a start and a death ...".
All resolved? No, because good Fracassetti in the Italian edition (the fifth and final volume) of the letters Petrarch, insert an index in which there is obviously all in all, and Pandolfo II (p. 521) is given news of the death note contained in the letter of the 27 "ranges."

Another error of Malatesta Fracassetti case of point 18 of the 'other' which in the Latin text (III, 341) that is addressed "To ignotos. The error was repeated in the Italian one (V, p. 263).
latest edition instead show that epistle (of 1364) with the exact names of the recipients, and Jailbird Pandolfo II Malatesta Ungaro said that in 1347 knighted by the King of Hungary. The letter is important because it expresses the sympathy of Petrarch to the two brothers for the death of their father, Malatesta Old called "Ruin". It is defined as a serious damage for Italy. Him, adds the poet, is the happy memories of a glorious life, and above all the other more famous contemporaries.

The tone of affectionate sympathy for the pain of Pandolfo II to his father's death, confirms that it is in Petrarch is the political leader and no trace remains of those who oppose the conflict and force the Visconti Malatesti the poet to write bad words against his friend in behalf of their employers, as seen in a previous page.
he rest in peace, Malatesta Ancient, forgive us and its shadow Now if we talk about his wife that only confused local reports (called from the teeth out, the usual Clementini, Carlo Tonini as malignant), identify by Constance Ondedei Saludecio.

Sources far from Rimini Constance speak instead of another, the house of Este, daughter of Azzo VIII and his second wife, Beatrice d'Anjou, daughter of Charles II, King of Sicily .
Azzo VIII's first wife Joan was born Bertoldo Orsini Count of Romagna in 1278, whose father is Gentile's brother Giovanni Gaetano Orsini I became Pope Nicholas III. Berthold Count of Romagna has a brother, Orso Orsini generates another Bertoldo (+1344) Father of the Paola Orsini (+1371) who becomes the wife of Pandolfo II Malatesta of the Sonnets mother and grandmother of Mary Cleophas.

The news of the marriage of these medieval lords, why do not affect sexual gossip or mundane style of d'Annunzio. They are used to define a political context, in which each marriage is a precise plan of dynastic strategy.
Clementini has confused the news about Constantine that appear in the house of Este and the Malatesta.
to keep her long, is Constance (I) that combines the Old, and there Constancy (II) who marries the son of the Old, Malatesta Ungaro, who was born and Obizzo III d'Este and his second wife (1347) Philippa Ariosti. Not to be left vague, and thus prevent the slander of others, point out: Obizzo III, ruler of Ferrara and Modena, the son of Azzo VIII Aldobrandino II brother of the father of Constance (I) that combines the Old.

Filippa Ariosti not forget: it seems that the marriage of a noble Bolognese Obizzo III have been made only in "articulo mortis", after he had given to his companion eleven or more children over a two decades.
From his family, transplanted from Bologna to Ferrara, sprout "famous men in very different classes, like the poet Ludovico Ariosto, as we read in" Memoirs for the history of Ferrara "by A. Frizzi (1850, p. 313).

A sister Pandolfo II, becomes the wife of Maxia or Masia OPICINA Pepoli, son of James who was brother of John, who we met in the letter of Petrarch of 1367.
John and James from 1347 to 1350 govern the city of Bologna, after the death of his father Taddeo. (Taddeo Pepoli is the first lord of Bologna, in 1337, "a doctor of law and heir of the great real estate fortune inherited from his father operate as a bank, "comes" from a middle class family, who for generations had practiced as a butcher, then passed to the notary, G. Fasoli.)

The 1350 is the year in which Pope Clement VI appointed the Count of Provence Romagna a man who married her cousin, Astorgio of Durfort by Limonges.
Astorgio is considered only able to plot treason, let alone the enemies and turn their weapons against their friends. Pepoli Stop John when he went to his camp to confer with him, the same fate comes to James.
To free them, Astorgio impossible ransom, 80 000 florins. For them, October 16, 1350 Pepoli sell the Bologna archbishop Giovanni Visconti lord of Milan (250,000 guilders). Astorgio uses that money to calm his troops who mutinied because they were poorly paid.

first wife Obizzo III d'Este is James Pepoli (1317), sister of Thaddeus just mentioned. Their father's name is Romeo Pepoli, and is head of the so-called protosignoria of Bologna.
From Obizzo Giacoma and Violante was born in 1345 who married in Malatesta Ungaro is the first wife. The second (1362) and constancy (II) who was also sister of the husband, being half-sister Violante d'Este.
About Pepoli Romeo, the German historian Heinrich Leo notes that if his fellow citizens to behave as an "extremist Guelph, instead shows" reckless foreign policy so as to facilitate the marriage of son James with Obizzo III d'Este. "
This wedding is a highly political event with value for both Pepoli for both Este. In Bologna in 1316 there were already troubled waters to the detriment of Guelph, and was forming a new party Ghibellines. It just became head Romeo Pepoli, in conjunction with the marriage of his daughter of James and Obizzo III, we read in Heinrich Leo. Which adds the wedding seem to favor especially Este.
They in 1317, has large resources of money and strong alliances with powerful, able to push a part of the bourgeoisie in their favor Ferrara to revolt against the French garrison, taking advantage of the temporary departure of the governor sent to the city by King Robert of Naples.

from Hungary and another Violante was born Constance (III) which we call "the sinner", in reference to the legend (source, usually Clementini) that the woman wants from life- dishonest, and in 1378 the victim of a crime of honor in the family thought, as he lay with a German nobleman.
Constance "sinner" in 1363 married Hugh, the brother of his mother Violante, being the natural son of Obizzo III (+1352) Lord of Ferrara from 1329 along with his brothers Rinaldo (+1335) and Nicholas I (+1344 ).
memory of Hugh was also passed by Petrarch in a letter to his brother Nicola d'Este, where he speaks after his death, which occurred August 2, 1370 (Sen., XIII, 1, 5.8. 1370), "Oh! that we missed, [...] one that was for ladies indulgentissimo dignity, love and obedient son, who not for any merit of mine, but only for the nobility of his soul was, as you know, started not so much to love me as a worship me, Like most of complacency in me was the wonder of a great affection and reverence as a disproportionate the diversity of our years and our condition. "

Ferrara in 1208 is the first example of a free city in Italy, with the election of Azzo VI Azzolino said to his master forever. Geez he was mayor (1196), and had fought a long time (since 1205) against the Ghibellines Salinguerra Torelli.
Ferrara in 1309 she returned to the Church it was disposed of in a vicarage Robert d'Anjou King of Naples, son of Charles II and then the brother of Beatrice, Azzo VIII's second wife.

The Angevin in recent years have a "presence constantly ambiguous" in our region: the service of the Curia, they often work against the popes thirst for power (A. Vasina). The House of Este in 1327 shall be appointed imperial vicar in Ferrara, in 1329 Vicar Apostolic. In 1331 they were given in fief by the Church. Bologna in 1331, with the consent of the liver, passes into the hands of King John of Bohemia, Charles IV's father, the Emperor of our time Pandolfo II Malatesta.

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Pandolfo II Malatesta's case is illuminating. They do come true many years after his arrival in the world, namely in 1325 and then when the ten years (1335) have miraculously under the command of the victorious armies ensure that the office of mayor of Fano.
need another Freud to describe the psycho-pathology of the historians who have no common sense in a normal reader of any books. Failing that, it would be enough to get to those lofty scholars to count with the fingers. To see that nine or ten years to drive a few troops, although in those days (much missed by those who, ignoring all of history, believe them inspired by the great moral of the West), they were enough to celebrate marriages only by political reasons.
An Italian scholar in 1907 raised the question of the birth of Pandolfo II, brought forward from 1325 to the period 1310-1315. The only mention of this scholar seems to be present in an essay published in Stockholm in 2004.

Pandolfo II disappears in 1373. But on this date there has been a misunderstanding, fortunately less common than on birth.
We take an older edition the Latin letters of Francesco Petrarca, one edited by Joseph Fracassetti in 1863 (vol. III, p. 373). The epistle No 27 (28 August 1367) of so-called "ranges", directed to Peter of Bologna, the poet says that things were going quite well when he was saddened by two news, the departure of Pandolfo Malatesta and the death of John Pepoli.
Petrarch hardened intellectual and perhaps only to pass the time, as does the witty intellectual inveterate each believes to be authorized to appear in every circumstance.
He writes (I apologize for the Latin quotation, which can cause hives in those who does not love us): "Omnia enim satis prosperous ibant, and nisi duobus oculis meis abiisset alter, alter obiisset: Pandulphum loquor Dominum, Dominum and Iohannem De Pepolis ...".
The two verbs used by Petrarch (the joke here is an intellectual) are the same except that in the initial letter. "Abir" means to leave, "Obir" instead of pop off.

In brief it offers (in Latin) under the letter of 27, Fracassetti misspelled "De Obitu Pandulphi Malatestae et Iohannis Pepoli "or" the death of Pandolfo and John Pepoli. "When this letter means 27 in Italian (vol. V, p. 310), Fracassetti corrects himself.
In summary puts it: "On the departure of Pandolfo Malatesta, and the death of John Pepoli. The translation of the Latin Fracassetti pitch that we reported, is as follows: "All I would go to second if it did not come to disturb me a start and a death ...".
All resolved? No, because good Fracassetti in the Italian edition (the fifth and final volume) of the letters Petrarch, insert an index in which there is obviously all in all, and Pandolfo II (p. 521) gives you the news of the death note contained 27 in the letter of the 'other'.

Another error of Malatesta Fracassetti case of point 18 of the 'other' that in the Latin text (III, 341) that is addressed "To ignotos. The error was repeated in the Italian one (V, p. 263).
latest edition instead show that epistle (of 1364) with the exact names of the recipients, and Jailbird Pandolfo II Malatesta Ungaro said that in 1347 knighted by the King of Hungary. The letter is important because it expresses the sympathy of Petrarch to the two brothers for the death of their father, Malatesta old saying, "Ruin." It is defined as a serious damage for Italy. Him, adds the poet, is the happy memories of a glorious life, and above all the other more famous contemporaries.

The tone of affectionate sympathy for the pain of Pandolfo II to his father's death, confirms that it is in Petrarch is the political leader and no trace remains of those who oppose the Malatesti contrast to the Visconti and force the poet to write bad words against friend on behalf of their employers, as seen in a previous page.
he rest in peace, Malatesta, Antique and his shadow forgive us if we speak now of his wife that only confused local reports (called from the teeth out, the usual Clementini, Carlo Tonini as malignant), identify by Constance Ondedei Saludecio.

Sources far from Rimini speak Constance instead of another, the house of Este, daughter of Azzo VIII and his second wife, Beatrice d'Anjou, daughter of Charles II, King of Sicily.
Azzo VIII's first wife Joan was born Bertoldo Orsini Count of Romagna in 1278, whose father is Gentile's brother Giovanni Gaetano Orsini I became Pope Nicholas III. Berthold Count of Romagna has a brother, Orso Orsini that generates another Bertoldo (+1344) Father of the Paola Orsini (+1371) who becomes the wife of Pandolfo II Malatesta of the Sonnets mother and grandmother of Mary Cleophas.

The news of the marriage of these medieval lords, why do not affect sexual gossip or mundane style of d'Annunzio. They are used to define a political context, in which each marriage is a precise plan of dynastic strategy.
Clementini has confused the news about Constantine that appear in the house of Este and the Malatesta.
to keep her long, is Constance (I) that combines the Old, and there is Constance (II) who marries the son of the Old, Malatesta Ungaro, and that it was born Obizzo III d'Este and his second wife (1347) Philippa Ariosti. Not to be left vague, and thus prevent the slander of others, point out: Obizzo III, ruler of Ferrara and Modena, the son of Azzo VIII Aldobrandino II's brother father of Constance (I) that combines the Old.

Filippa Ariosti not forget: it seems that the marriage of a noble Bolognese Obizzo III have been made only in "articulo mortis", after he had given to his companion eleven or more children over a two decades.
his family, transplanted from Bologna to Ferrara, sprout "famous men in very different classes, like the poet Ludovico Ariosto, as we read in" Memoirs for the history of Ferrara "by A. Frizzi (1850, p. 313).

A sister Pandolfo II, becomes the wife of Maxia or Masia OPICINA Pepoli, son of James who John was the brother of that we have met the letter of Petrarch of 1367.
John and James from 1347 to 1350 govern the city of Bologna, after the death of his father Taddeo. (Taddeo Pepoli is the first lord of Bologna, in 1337, "a doctor of law and heir of the great real estate fortune inherited from his father operate as a bank," comes "from a middle class family, who for generations had practiced as butcher then passed to the notary, G. Fasoli.)

The 1350 is the year in which Pope Clement VI appointed a count of Romagna Provencal who married a relative, of Astorgio Durfort by Limonges.
Astorgio is considered only able to plot treason, let alone their enemies and turn their weapons against their friends. Stop Pepoli John when he went to his camp to confer with him, the same fate comes to James.
To free them, Astorgio impossible ransom, 80 000 florins. For them, October 16, 1350 Pepoli sell the Bologna archbishop Giovanni Visconti lord of Milan (250,000 guilders). Astorgio uses that money to calm his troops who mutinied because they were poorly paid.

first wife Obizzo III d'Este is James Pepoli (1317), sister of Thaddeus just mentioned. Their father's name is Romeo Pepoli, and is head of the so-called protosignoria of Bologna.
From Obizzo Giacoma and Violante was born in 1345 who married in Malatesta Ungaro is the first wife. The second (1362) and constancy (II) who was also sister of the husband, being half-sister Violante d'Este.
About Pepoli Romeo, the German historian Heinrich Leo notes that if his fellow citizens with acts like an "extremist Guelph, instead shows" reckless foreign policy so as to facilitate the marriage of son James with Obizzo III d ' Este ".
This wedding is an event with value eminently for both political and Pepoli for Este. In Bologna in 1316 there were already troubled waters to the detriment of Guelph, and was forming a new party Ghibellines. It just became head Romeo Pepoli, in conjunction with the marriage of his son James and Obizzo III, we read in Heinrich Leo. Which adds the wedding seem to favor especially Este.
They in 1317, has large resources of money and strong alliances with powerful, able to push a part of the bourgeoisie in their favor Ferrara to revolt against the French garrison, taking advantage of the temporary departure of the governor sent to the city by King Robert of Naples.

Violante was born from Hungary and another Costanza (III) which we call "the sinner", in reference to the legend (source, usually Clementini) that the woman wants the "dishonest life," and in 1378 of a murder victim 's honor in the family thought, as he lay with a German nobleman.
Constance "sinner" in 1363 married Hugh, the brother of his mother Violante, being the natural son of Obizzo III (+1352) Lord of Ferrara from 1329 along with his brothers Rinaldo (+1335) and Nicholas I (+1344 ).
memory of Hugh was also passed by Petrarch in a letter to his brother Nicola d'Este, where he speaks after the disappearance, on 2 August 1370 (Sen., XIII, 1, 05/08/1370) "Oh! that we missed, [...] one that was for ladies indulgentissimo dignity, love and obedient son, who not for any merit of mine, but only for the nobility of his soul was, as you know, started not so much to love me how to worship me, Like most of complacency in me was the wonder of a great affection and reverence as a proportion to the diversity of our years and our condition. "

Ferrara in 1208 is the first example of a free city in Italy, with the election of Azzo VI Azzolino said to his master forever. Geez he was mayor (1196), and had struggled for a long time (since 1205) against the Ghibellines Salinguerra Torelli.
Ferrara in 1309 she returned to the Church in the vicarage was sold on to Robert of Anjou king of Naples, son of Charles II and then the brother of Beatrice, Azzo VIII's second wife.

The Angevin in recent years have a "presence constantly ambiguous" in our region: the service of the Curia, they often work against the popes thirst for power (A. Vasina). The House of Este in 1327 shall be appointed imperial vicar in Ferrara, in 1329 Vicar Apostolic. In 1331 they were given in fief by the Church. Bologna in 1331, with the consent of the liver, passes into the hands of King John of Bohemia, father Emperor Charles IV of our time Pandolfo II Malatesta.


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Saturday, August 7, 2010

Which Letter Not On Ontario Licence Plate




The origins of the Malatesta family. The first
Malatesta called the "German", its story told in old books

The disease has very positive aspects of reading. Including the right to have fun with the random encounters that are made in the pages of books. As a story only to introduce our theme. In February 2010 was a volume entitled "First lesson in historical method", edited by Sergio Luzzatto, who teaches modern history at the University Turin. Its premise ends by stating the purpose of the work: take a guided tour of the workshop good historiography to combat environmental pollution "produced by historians false, servile historians, by historians irresponsible . The three categories could be used to file many of the authors who have spoken of our subject, the origin of the Malatesta household.

left out of any classification as an English scholar, John Larner (1930-2008), author of a history of the Lords of Romagna (1965) revived two years ago by a publisher Cesena. He writes that "any attempt to trace the descendants of noble families from periods prior to the eleventh century, or from destinations outside of Romagna, was forced to get lost in a fruitless search. "Beside him another author should be placed, Leardo Mascanzoni (associate of Medieval History at Bologna), showing the thumbs down to these efforts, defining "false" the problem of the origins of Malatesta (2003).

Hats opinions illustrious lordship. Turning the pages of any book, ancient or modern, we would like to continue, ignoring the fact that you can be fined by the strict guards of historic trails. Let's start with a book somewhat 'antiquated to remember that in the past the search for origins Malatesta, so deprecated today, had its supporters fans without any purpose of personal gain. Which could be charged instead of the old court intellectuals. So, in 1574 in Venice is the first part (15 books) in the history of the Kingdom of Italy Carlo Sigonio composed of Modena, who lived from about 1520 and 1584. The second part with the remaining 5 books comes out in Frankfurt in 1591. In 1613, the complete works to be published today Hanovia Hanau, in Hesse.
In the book VII we read that in April 997 in Ravenna, the Emperor Otto III (980-1002) the appointment of the Marquis, and honored with the award of certain fiefs in Romagna, a Malatesta so that some call the "German" ( "Germanum fuisse perhibent nothing"). By him "Familia nobilis Malatestarum hunch usque in diem east in the province and spread." The refinement of linguistic Sigonio obliges us to point out that he writes "Malamtestam quendam [...] Feudis rates in Romaniola honestavit. The confirmation of two of that name ("Malamtestam" and not simply "Malatestam"), no trace of a fundamental aspect: it is a compound word. Add the phrase "familia nobilis Malatestarum" to be translated: the noble family of Malatesta (and Malatesta), as we already knew since middle school once.

To stay in the past, let us remember the eighteenth-century countryman Francesco Gaetano Battaglini, a scholar the gum up, who in his "Memoirs histories of Rimini (Bologna 1789, p. 164, ed. an. Rimini 1976) cites Sigonio without objection. But let us not forget our contemporary sources. Francesco Vitali, a specialist in European history, notes on the web that "political action of Otto III, establishing a clear dependence of the peninsula from the imperial resolutions." John Larner Malatesti cites as the source of a brother of Emperor Henry III (1017-1056), having argued that feudalism was born in Romagna at the time of Brass in the tenth century. With Otto III, we are just at the end of the tenth and early eleventh.
So, to return to Sigonio, who can never be the Malatesta German? Start over. The arrival of Malatesta in Romagna is located at 1002, when Otto III appointed his vicar for Rimini, identified in a child of his sister Matilda of Saxony, wife of Count Palatine Ezzo of Lorraine. Matilda, she was born around 980 (by Otto II and Theophania Anna of Byzantium), however, could not have generated an heir who in 1002 was already old enough to get that position. Ezzo of Lorraine (also called Erenfrido) has a brother, Ezzelino (+1033), who is the father of Henry I (+1060) said "unsinnige der" or "headless".

The vicar appointed by Otto III Ezzelino could be, and the Malatesta dynasty be named after the nickname given to Henry I. Mason notes that often the nicknames "And though they were imposed for the most opprobrium that honor, but then went out of family names (see" Annals ", III, Milano 1838, p. 21). Gaetano Moroni writes in the "Dictionary of historical and ecclesiastical scholarship" (LVII, Venice 1852, under "Rimini", pp. 264-265), composed in the history of Fano Amiani Pier Maria (1751) "it is said that in 969 the Malatesta possessed some lands in Fano [...]. The Sigonio said that Otto III after 983 or later, come to Italy and stopped in Ravenna, grants certain lands in fief of Romagna to the gentleman who had brought his Malatesta of Germany , and from which came the Malatesta of Rimini, Fano and other cities. "
Amiani sources have said Raffaele Maffei of Volterra (1451-1522) and Marcantonio Coccio said Sabellico (1436-1506) who was a pupil of John Pandone said Antonio Porcel or Porcello (ca. 1405-1485). Pandone lived at the court of the Malatesta family in Rimini, composing the well-known elegiac verses in honor of Isolde ("De Jovis in Isottam love"). But, as noted in a letter sent from Rome November 20, 1801 From Alexander Morrona (1741-1821) for publication in his "Pisa illustrated in the arts of design", II (Pisa 1812), the Rimini Battaglini Angelo (Francesco Gaetano's brother and author of "Court literary Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, Lord of Rimini), Pandone was "the most valuable historical prophet" (the Web).

rating Angelo Battaglini may suggest to consider valid the claims of Sabellico, who was the author of 63 volumes of world history. Sabellico A and Maffei did not believe instead Francesco Sansovino (1521-1586) who in his book "On the origin and de 'facts of the illustrious families of Italy" (1582), raises the Malatesta dynasty "in Rome" (cc. 221-222). The track left to us by Sansovino, albeit from Rome, however, refers to Germany: "... [...] can you believe that times of Othon Third "was born, the family of Malatesta," and then dormant since 900 until 1248, would rise again in that year ". The news of the family" dormant "is contradicted by documents produced by other authors.
the strangeness of this long silence is aware of the Sansovino:" However it seems great that from 900 until 1248, having been enriched by Othon Malatesta castles, giurisditioni, and other securities of magnitude, it was not for the spatio of 348 years altogether extinguished any memory until the year 1248 and especially since Arimino chamber was Empire, and was owned by the emperors. "(" Chamber of Empire "means city loyal to the emperor.) Betussi Joseph (1515-1575) wrote in 1547 of the Malatesta family, calling them" ancient Lords of Arimino, the principle and the size of which begins at the time of Otto III. "The text is in the" Sum of the book of the illustrious women of Boccaccio (Venice 1545-1547), chap. 46 devoted to "Geneva Malatesta" . This may be the source of Sigonio.

Today we continue to define the result of "mere fantasy" the issue of the Germanic origins of Malatesta, but then says it would not compromise the reliability of a document of 1186 which covers just a German Malatesta. This character refers to his namesake Germanus two centuries later (997) by Otto III received investiture, as we read in Sigonio. The appearance more interesting than all this talk is that at its base are two centuries of difference, contracts in a short period as if they were just two decades.
The same thing happens to the recalled Betussi identifying the friend of Otto III in Malatesta Malatesta, who was the father of the Mastiff and though he lived two centuries after Otto III. Malatesta Betussi adds that "the friendship, and authority" of Otto III, "from which he gained several places, became a great Lord." Consoled by the fact that if things change in the world, some survive to ensure the continuity blunders in human history, even in writing, always a mixture of certainty and lies.
Sorry for the brutal honesty a reader who has not guilty of the things found in books. Who says there is no information about the origins of the Malatesta family, be opposed twenty-three unpublished documents which eighteen will be announced shortly. They tell a definite route between Romagna, Marche and Tuscany.

This text develops the content of the note 166, essay "Exile of Romagna in Florence in the Age of Dante , published in Quaderni dell'Accademia Fanestre ', 8 / 2009, pp. 83-134.
The paper can be downloaded for free from this link and or from the link Antonio Montanari site Scribd.