noble and wealthy family of N. Italy, whose chief possessions lay
in the Val di Magra in Lunigiana.
[Lunigiana].
The earliest member of the family referred to by D. is Currado I,
known as l'antico,
[Purg. viii. 119, ][Malaspina, Currado_1]; his grandson,
Currado II da Villafranca, known as 'il Giovane', is placed among
the Negligent Princes in the valley of flowers in Ante-Purgatory,
[Purg. viii. 65, 118, ][Malaspina, Currado_2]; another grandson,
Moroello III da Giovagallo, is referred to as vapor di Val di
Magra,
[Inf. xxiv. 145],
[Malaspina, Moroello].
The family in general is spoken of in very laudatory terms by D.
in conversation with Currado II (in Ante-Purgatory).
