Ramberto Malatesta (1475-1532) succeeded his father Carlo Malatesta in 1486. He was called “the Philosopher” because of his vast culture. In 2014 scholar Andrea Antonioli presented his work “Ramberto Malatesta – Mente sublime & Anima oscura,” in which he delved into the historical figure of Ramberto M. The volume is accompanied by an impressive appendix including texts, documents, letters and predictions, the result of a long historical research on the unpublished and extraordinary figure of Ramberto Malatesta Count of Sogliano, philosopher, astrologer and magician, who sheds light on the extraordinary and unparalleled period that was the Italian Renaissance. From the study emerges a character of extraordinary intellectual stature. Ramberto M. learned the most sophisticated notions of philosophy, the Platonic, Hermetic and Kabbalistic doctrines, while attending the Villa Careggi Academy directed by Marsilio Ficino, an important philosopher and humanist known for having translated, in 1463, the books of the Corpus Hermeticum, brought from Macedonia to Italy by Leonardo da Pistoia; his work of translation had a considerable influence on European Renaissance thought. In Florence Ramberto came into contact with the most sublime minds of the Renaissance, including Angelo Poliziano, Lorenzo the Magnificent, Francesco Maria della Rovere, Cesare Borgia, Francesco Gonzaga, Alfonso I d’Este, the Guicciardini brothers, Jacopo Salviati, Bartolomeo Scala, Pico della Mirandola, Baldassarre Castiglione, and Pietro Bembo. Ramberto is also known, however, for a terrible episode. In 1507 the lord of Sogliano committed a heinous crime: having fallen in love with the peasant girl Angelina Roberti, he imprisoned and stabbed his wife Maria de Fois to death in the Rocca di Tornano. The people rose up over the brutal murder, and Ramberto was forced to leave the county. Only after a few years was he able to return to Sogliano. He lived his last years completely devoted to his philosophical and astronomical studies. Like his father, he was buried in Villa Verucchio.