Giovanna Novella Malaspina

Giovanna Novella Malaspina, called Franceschina (Fosdinovo, c. 1320 – Mantua, c. 1385), was the daughter of the condottiero Spinetta Malaspina, known as il Grande, lord of Fosdinovo, and of Beatrice Visconti. She married the Genoese nobleman Lucemburgo Spinola, by whom she had a son.

In 1340 she became the third wife of Luigi I Gonzaga, the seventy-two-year-old first capitano del popolo of Mantua, and bore him five children.