Later that year he received from Patriarch Raimondo della Torre investiture with the temporalities of his double see.
[1] As bishop, Novello is best remembered for an episode mentioned by Dante Alighieri in his Paradiso, 9:51–60, the so-called difalta (error).
Antoniolo, Lancilotto and Claruccio da Fontana and their associates, thirty men in total, were publicly beheaded by Della Tosa.
[2][4][5] Dante puts in the mouth of Cunizza a prophecy of the suffering that will come to Feltre because of its "wicked shepherd" (l'empio pastor).
[1] According to Benvenuto da Imola, he was beaten to death with sacks of sand, such was the enduring hostility for his difalta.