A TOMB AT RAVENNA 
Unfortunately we know little of Guidarello’s 
early life, and the few details of his exploits which 
have been preserved all relate to his last years. 
In April 1498 he sold land to the value of thirty-five 
florins, and raised a troop of horse, at the head 
of which he set out for Tuscany to join the 
Venetian army under Duke Guidobaldo of Urbino. 
Marino Sanudo, whose Diaries afford us so much 
valuable information concerning this period, mentions 
Guidarello repeatedly in his chronicle of passing 
events. From him we learn that this knight of 
Ravenna was among the chief captains of the 
forces in Val d’Arno who met in the camp during 
the last week of September to decide on the 
measures necessary for reducing the fortress of 
Marati, then held by the Florentines. On this 
occasion Duke Guidobaldo himself was present, 
as well as Piero and Giuliano dei Medici, the 
sons of Lorenzo, who had recently been expelled 
from Florence by the partisans of Savonarola, and 
were now fighting in the enemy’s ranks against their 
native city. “ And here, too,” writes Sanudo, “ were 
present Signor Bartolommeo d’Alviano, Paolo Man- 
fron, my lord Annibale Bentivoglio of Bologna, 
and one Guidarello of Ravenna.” 1 
On January 20, 1499, the same chronicler 
1 Marino Sanudo Diarii, ii. 8. 
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