Giovanni Pepoli

Giovanni Pepoli (c. 1310–1367), eldest son of Signore Taddeo, was the family's envoy. When Taddeo died in September 1347, Giovanni and his brother Giacomo inherited a signoria already tied to the Visconti.

Pope Clement VI asked the brothers to back his rector Astorgio di Durfort against Visconti expansion; their answer was lukewarm, and in July 1350 the rector lured Giovanni into a trap at Solarolo and captured him. Freed, he fled to Milan.

The talks there ended on 16 October 1350 with the sale of Bologna to Giovanni Visconti for 170,000 gold florins, the family keeping its castles. Unlike Giacomo, jailed in 1351, Giovanni entered Visconti service and died as their vicar at Pavia on 28 August 1367.