Rodolfo II da Varano

Rodolfo II da Varano (d. 1384), lord of Camerino, was the son of Berardo and succeeded Gentile II in 1355. He had already made his name at the Christian capture of Smyrna in 1344.

In 1355 he defeated Galeotto Malatesta near Paderno, seized Recanati and captured him at Castelfidardo; the peace was sealed by Galeotto's marriage to his daughter Elisabetta. As papal gonfaloniere he reconquered Rimini, Fano and Pesaro for the Church.

In 1377 Pope Gregory XI made him commander-in-chief against Florence, and the Florentines painted him on a public building as a traitor, hanging upside down from a gallows. He died at Tolentino in 1384.