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.

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