Francesco I Sforza

Francesco I Sforza (1401-1466) was an Italian condottiero, the founder of the Sforza dynasty in Milan, Italy.

Francesco Sforza in The Gladiator
As part of a homework assignment in which he had to place a feudal lord, a capitalist and a Fascist in Dante' s Inferno, Gianfranco Mazzilli chose Francesco Sforza for his feaudal lord, placing him in the Sixth Circle of Hell since he'd taken Milan.