The Battle of Zagonara was fought on 28 July 1424 at Zagonara (Lugo di Romagna) between the armies of the Republic of Florence and that of Filippo Maria Visconti, duke of Milan, an episode of the Wars in Lombardy.
A number of famous Italian condottieri of the 15th century took part in the battle.
The only condottiero who died in the battle was Lodovico degli Obizzi, who fell off his horse and suffocated in the mud.
[1] The battle occurred when Carlo I Malatesta, lord of Rimini, intervened in support of Alberico Novello da Barbiano [it], whose troops were under siege in the castle of Zagonara by Milanese mercenaries under Angelo della Pergola.
Malatesta's troops (amounting to some 8,000 cavalry) abandoned the siege of Forlì and attacked the Visconti, led by Secco da Montagnana.