A history, from the mid-thirteenth to the early sixteenth century, this book is about an Italian state, Rimini, and its ruling family, the Malatesta. It investi... » 

A history, from the mid-thirteenth to the early sixteenth century, this book is about an Italian state, Rimini, and its ruling family, the Malatesta. It investigates in detail the origin, development and character of Malatesta government, and the causes of its overthrow, against the background of changing relations between popes and despots. «