ABSTRACT
Battista da Montefeltro Malatesta (1383-1450), herself a scholar, helped educate her granddaughter Costanza Varano.1 Battista’s daughter, Elisabetta, married Pier Gentile da Varano, who in 1433 was executed during the course of a family struggle for the rule of the town of Camerino. Elisabetta fled with Costanza, the heir Rodolfo, and two other children to Pesaro, the home of her husband and her grandfather, Galeazzo Malatesta.
