Giovanni Malatesta
Giovanni Malatesta, called Gianciotto the Lame (c. 1245–1304), was the second son of Malatesta da Verucchio of Rimini. From 1265 he fought in Romagna against Guido da Montefeltro's Ghibellines and helped rule papal Rimini.
In 1285 he found his wife Francesca da Polenta in the arms of his brother Paolo and killed them both, a murder Dante placed in Inferno. Expelled from Rimini with his family in 1288, he served five times as podestà of Pesaro, dying there in 1304.