 Fui chiamato Currado Malaspina;
non son l'antico, ma di lui discesi;
a' miei portai l'amor che qui raffina".Divina Commedia Purgatorio Canto 8 vv.112-120

"So may the lantern leading thee above,
find in thy will the wax that is required
for one to reach the enamelled green on high;"
he thus began, "if thou of Val di Magra,
or of its neighboring land, dost know true news,
tell it to me, who once was mighty there.Corrado Malaspina I was called;
I ’m not the elder, but from him descended;
I bore my race the love which here is cleansed.