title: Malvezzi
text: # Malvezzi
  
  Malvezzi is an Italian surname. Members of an aristocratic family from Bologna
  
  ## Members of an aristocratic family from Bologna
  
  * Annibale Malvezzi: Condottieri for Venetian armies, circa 1480
  * Virgilio Malvezzi: (1595–1654) historian and essayist, soldier and diplomat
  * Giovanni Luigi Malvezzi de’ Medici (1819-1892) politician, patriot, and Italian scholar.
  
  The Malvezzi of Bologna were owners of prominent buildings in Bologna and surroundings, including:
  
  * Palazzo Malvezzi-Lupari, Bologna
  * Palazzo Malvezzi-Medici, Bologna
  * Palazzo Malvezzi-Campeggi, Bologna
  * Palazzo Malvezzi-Leoni, Bologna
  * Palazzo Malvezzi-Hercolani at Castelguelfo
  * Teatro Malvezzi, Bologna : Opera house built in 1651, burned down in 1745
  * Rocca Malvezzi-Campeggi: medieval castle in Dozza
  
  ## Other
  
  * Cristofano Malvezzi (1547 – 1599) born Lucca, active in Florence as organist and composer
  * Jacopo Malvezzi (died c. 1432): doctor and historiographer of Brescia
  