Following his excommunication, Malatesta was employed by Venice to fight in Greece. While in Mistras, Sigismondo exhumed Pletho’s remains, transported them to Rimini, and interred them in a sarcophagus ensconced in the southwest wall of the Tempio Malatestiano.

From Architecture and memory: the Renaissance studioli of Federico de Montefeltro by Robert Kirkbride