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CANTO VIII
Sigismondo on horseback, at the very left of Benozzo Gozzoli's fresco, Procession of the Magi. Florence: Palazzo Medici Riccardi.
(Gemisthus Plethon, with white beard and blue cap in the group of followers).
No one has claimed that the Malatesta Cantos are obscure. They are openly volitionist, establishing, I think clearly, the effect of the factive personality, Sigismundo, an entire man.
Ezra Pound. Guide to Kulchur 194.
RELATED CANTOS
CANTO XXI [mirror models of patronage: Lorenzo de Medici and Jefferson]
CANTO XXIV [A Renaissance lord: Sigismondo vs Niccolò d’Este; the Tempio vs the Schifanoia]
CANTO XLV [art patronage during the Renaissance; The Tempio Malatestiano]
