[140] Diotisalvi to Pigello, Malpaga, October 8, 1466; see Fabroni as above, ii. 38.
[141] Inferno, xxvii. 37. The translation of Philalethe gives in the historical sketch appended to this canto a careful view of the confused condition of the Romagna in Dante’s days. We have in the continuation of Litta’s work by L. Passerini the genealogies of most of the great families of Romagna, the Malatesta, Ordelaffi, Manfredi, and Da Polenta.
[142] Instead of the exceedingly numerous works on the history of Ferrara, only Litta’s Genealogy will be quoted here.
[143] R. Reposati Della Zecca di Gubbio, Bologna, 1772. James Dennistoun, Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, London, 1851. F. Ugolino Storia dei Conti e Duchi d’Urbino, Flor. 1859.
[144] N. Ratti Della Famiglia Sforza, i. 144 seq.; Litta, Sforza Family.
[145] Fabroni, Cosm. Med. Vita, ii. 169.
[146] Giovanni Gozzadini, Memorie per la Vita di Giovanni II. Bentivoglio, Bologna, 1839.
[147] The most abundant material for the history of the war and peace of 1467-68 is afforded by Fr. Trinchera, Codice Aragonese, i. (Naples 1866), which contains King Ferrante’s correspondence. S. Romanin, Storia di Venezia, b. xi. (vol. iv.) gives the account, having used D. Malipiero’s Annali, Veneti i.
[148] Rinuccini, Ricordi, s. cv.
[149] Malipiero as above, p. 215.