Francesco Novello da Carrara

Francesco Novello da Carrara (19 May 1359 – 16 January 1406) was Lord of Padua after his father, Francesco il Vecchio, renounced the lordship on 29 June 1388; he was a member of the family of Carraresi. He married Taddea, daughter of Niccolò II d'Este, Lord of Modena.
He fought in the Battle of Castagnaro (1387) for Padua.
He was executed by Venetian officials after his capture during the war between Venice and Padua (see Wars of Guelphs and Ghibellines). Burckhardt writes: "when the last Carrara could no longer defend the walls and gates of the plague-stricken Padua, hemmed in on all sides by the Venetians, the soldiers of the guard heard him cry to the devil 'to come and kill him.'" His sons Francesco and Giacomo who had also been captured were executed the following day. 
In Francesco's extensive "familia", or ducal household, the painter Cennino Cennini imbibed the humanist culture expressed in his celebrated "Libro dell'arte". Among his children there was Gigliola da Carrara.