The Rough Draft of the Film Memoir by Greg

[King Bob]

The Malatestas were rulers in Rimini in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. One of them murdered his wife and her lover, and appears in Dante's Inferno. The most famous was Sigismondo, who was a condottiero in the 15th century. He warred against the Montefeltros of Urbino, who had the Pope's backing, and the Pope issued a proclamation that Sigismondo would be sent to hell. (Sigismondo then sodomized the Papal emissary in front of his cheering troops.) He built the Tempio Malatestiano, a church/mausoleum for his family, and the iconography caused some at the time to consider it almost  pagan. Some art historians tell students that he built it as a temple to himself, which is a good story, but not quite true.

Off topic, but if you are interested in the condottieri, there is a very good book about Sir John Hawkwood (maybe the most famous condottiero, whose portrait can be seen in Florence Cathedral) called The Devil's Broker.