Caterina Malabocca

Caterina Malabocca was the daughter of the counts Malvicini of Bagnacavallo in the Romagna hinterland. Before March 1310 she married Guido Novello da Polenta, lord of Ravenna, a match linking the ruling Polentani to her family's inland lordship.

She bore him five children, among them Lamberto, Ostasio, Costanza, who married the Paduan nobleman Niccolò da Carrara, and Polentesia, who married Malatestino Novello Malatesta. She also used her right of church patronage to obtain benefices in Ravenna for Pietro Alighieri, the poet Dante's son. She died in 1327.