The Palace and Park by Phillips, Forbes, Latham, Owen, Scharf, and Shenton

[Died, 1321.] A gentleman of Modena, at the head of the Ghibelline faction, in fighting whose battles with the Guelphs he passed his life. In 1312, he filled the office of Podestà of Modena, but was expelled from the city the very same year by the Guelph party. Returning, he sold his authority for 50,000 florins to Bonacossi, Lord of Mantua, and retired to his estates at Mirandola, whither Bonacossi followed him, assassinated him and his two sons, and made off with the purchase money. [From a terracotta in the Berlin Museum. A youthful portrait.]