He was Marquis of Castelnuovo Scrivia, Count of Caiazzo and Colorno and Lord of Albanella, Cittadella, Corleto Monforte, Corte Madama, Felitto, Lugano, Mendrisio, Montorio Veronese, Pontecurone, Roscigno, Serre and Solaro.

[1] He was shrewd, profiteering and proud, as well as - just like her son Fracasso - angry, fiery and impetuous: she often fell subject to violent attacks of anger in public; it is known when in 1466, in the garden of the Duchess of Calabria, he came to seriously insult the prince of Salerno, his namesake, for a dispute over some properties.

Always in the service of Sforza, who in the meantime became Duke of Milan, with Bartolomeo Colleoni he beat the Venetians at Genivolta in July 1452.In 1458 he went on pilgrimage to the Holy Land and left a detailed diary of the journey.

During the regency of the Duchy of Bona of Savoy, mother of Gian Galeazzo Maria, he came into conflict with Cicco Simonetta, advisor to the regent, who did not renew his contract of conduct and who for this reason later became unpopular with the Ghibelline party.

The villains believed in Sanseverino and not in Count Borella, who was imprisoned, so that Roberto could safely reach Asti and from here France; sentenced in absentia to beheading, his assets were confiscated in favor of Ercole I d'Este.

Sanseverino was convinced to support the decisive attack and after the conquest of Tortona and the capture of various castles and strongholds entered Milan in September 1479, also following the reconciliation of Ludovico Sforza with the Duchess Bona.

The military campaign, however, turned out to be a defeat and Pope Innocent VIII himself, at the appropriate time, found an agreement with the Neapolitans and fired Sanseverino who, apparently, blackmailed the pontiff, threatening to abandon him if he did not grant one of his sons the title of cardinal.

Hearing that the Germans were coming down armed from the mountains in large quantities, he with his men went back to the Adige river, but found that the bridge had already been broken by Andrea dal Borgo for fear that the enemies would pass,[8] or in an attempt to force the Venetian soldiers to fight.

[10] Ruberto Sanseverino, as abandoned, remained among the enemies, proving an excellent captain and a private soldier; and although he was cruelly wounded, nevertheless he fought valiantly with that sword with which not only in all of Italy, but also among the barbarian armies, he had so often won very happy victory, killing many around him.

Ludovico il Moro, who seemed to take pleasure in the death of his great enemy, painted him instead while several times he tried to escape, without success, towards the river, and died not in battle but on the way to Trento, where he was to be taken prisoner.

[12] Non potendo per forza ingegno ed arte Spenger il tuo valor constante e forte L'empia fortuna s'accordò con Morte Che te assediaro da ciascuna parte.

Ma non fé mai di sé tal prova Marte Qual fatto hai tu con le tue squadre accorte, Ed hai morendo tante genti morte, Che di te sarà scritto in mille carte.Nulla giova acquistare in terra onore Ed ogni nostro affaticare è vano; Quel solo ha gloria eterna che ben more; Morto, Roberto, sei con l'arme in mano: Bel fine a te, che gli è gran disonore Morir in su le piume un capitano In 1498, the body was transported at the request of his sons and Ludovico il Moro to Milan to be buried in the church of San Francesco Grande, in a chapel he had built.

[13] In Venice in the Doge's Palace the following inscription was placed in his memory:Bellorum domitor, Severina stirpe Robertus/ Alter qui nostro tempore Cesar erat,/ Cuius virtutem Feraria ferrea sensit/ Horruit Aemilia celsasque Roma tremit./ Frenavit Janue partes Liguremque superbum/ Italiae terror teutonicusque metus,/ Fortuna invida regat posta fata Tridenti,/ Quod non vita sibi, mors inopina dedit.

From the latter he certainly had:[19] Although motherhood remains unclear, the following persons must also be considered as legitimate descendants of Roberto Sanseverino:[20] He also had natural children: It is also necessary to calculate the existence of at least three other bastard sons with an unknown name, who followed their father to Rome in 1485, as evidenced by the Roman Diary,[25] and two of whom died with him in 1487 in Calliano, as claimed by the Ferrarese chronicler Ugo Caleffini.

Mercurio, knowing him as "a young expert and a strong man in arms" and doubting "not to lose his honor to fight with him", preferred to ambush him with 25 stradioti on the road from Melegnano to San Donato Milanese.