Antonia Malatesta of Cesena explained

Antonia Malatesta of Cesena, also known as Antonia Malatesta of Rimini, was a Duchess of Milan by marriage to Giovanni Maria Visconti. She was the Regent of Milan in the interim after the death of her spouse in 1412.

She was the daughter^[1] (or possibly the niece^[2]) of Carlo I Malatesta, Lord of Cesena, Fano, Pesaro, and Rimini. To help ally himself with the House of Malatesta, Giovanni Maria Visconti, the Duke of Milan married Antonia in the city of Brescia^{[1] [3]} in 1408. They had no children.^[4]

After Giovanni Maria's assassination in 1412, the succeeding Duke of Milan, Filippo Maria Visconti, permitted Antonia to continue sharing the governance of the duchy for a few months.^[5] Although she soon retired to Cesena, she retained her title, Duchess of Milan.^[5]

In art

• Web site: Antonia Malatesta . kleio.org . 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110703091055/https://www.kleio.org/en/history/famtree/sforza/2545.html . 2011-07-03 . dead . none. Malatesta with her husband, Giovanni Maria Visconti, depicted as Mary and the child Jesus.
• A portrait of Antonia at the Certosa (a Carthusian monastery, north of Pavia) and a portrait of her husband^[6]

In literature

• Bellarion,^[7] by Raphael Sabatini

Notes and References

1. Book: Tonini, Luigi. Rimini. 5. 1884. 22. Rimini. Orfanelli e Grandi. 35300205. Italian. February 22, 2010.
2. Book: Verri, Pietro. Pietro_Verri. First published 1783. Storia di Milano: In cui si narrano le vicende della cittla incominciando dai pilu rimoti principi sino alla fine del dominio de' Visconti. 1. 1834. 503. Milano. 185598701. Italian. February 22, 2010.
3. Book: Adams . John . John Adams . A defence of the constitutions of government of the United States of America, against the attack of M. Turgot in his letter to Dr. Price, dated the twenty-second day of March, 1778 . Antonia. . November 6, 2010 . 1794 . . London . 2678599 . 154.
4. Book: Rossi, Antonio Domenico. Ristretto di storia patria ad uso de'Piacentini. 1830. 245. Maino. 163149045. Italian. February 22, 2010.
5. Book: Jones, P.J.. The Malatesta of Rimini and the Papal State: a political history. limited. London. Cambridge University Press. 1974. 296420840. 155. 2027/heb.01211.
6. Book: Campo, Antonio. Historia Delle Vite De' Duchi, Et Duchesse Di Milano: Con i loro veri Ritratti cavati al Naturale.. 1642. 4–5. Milano. Ghisolfi. 245786904. Italian. February 22, 2010. etal.
7. Book: Sabatini, Raphael. Rafael_Sabatini. Bellarion the fortunate: a romance. Bellarion the Fortunate. Boston. Houghton Mifflin. 1926. 1170948.