Parisina Malatesta
Deceased Person
1404 – 1425
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Who was Parisina Malatesta?
Laura Malatesta, better known as Parisina Malatesta, was the daughter of Andrea Malatesta, lord of Cesena, and his second wife, Lucrezia Ordelaffi. She had affair with her bastard stepson Ugo d'Este, and both were beheaded by her husband Marquis Niccolò III d'Este of Ferrara.
After Edward Gibbon's mention this story, Byron wrote poem Parisina, that followed by operas of same name by Donizetti and Mascagni.
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