Ottobon Terzi was assassinated at Parma (1408), Nicola Borghese at Siena (1499).

Altobello Dattiri at Todi (about 1500), Raimondo and Pandolfo Malatesta at Rimini, and Oddo Antonio di Montefeltro at Urbino (1444).[2] The Varani were massacred to a man in the Church of S.Dominic at Camerino (1434), the Trinci at Foligno (1434), and the Chiavelli of Fabriano in church upon Ascension Day (1435).

This wholesale extirpation of three reigning families introduces one of the most romantic episodes in the history of Italian despotism.
From the slaughter of the Varani one only child, Giulio Cesare, a boy of two years old, was saved by his aunt Tora.

She concealed him in a truss of hay and carried him to the Trinci at Foligno.

Hardly had she gained this refuge, when the Trinci were destroyed, and she had to fly with her burden to the Chiavelli at Fabriano.