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{{Short description|Lord of Verona from 1329 to 1351}}
{{ infobox noble
| name = Mastino II della Scala
| image = Mastino II della Scala.jpg
| image_size = 250px
| caption = Statue of Mastino II della Scala. Once located on the top of his tomb, one of the [[Scaliger Tombs]], it is now in the [[Castelvecchio Museum]] at Verona.
| noble family= [[Scaliger]]
| father = [[Alboino I della Scala]]
| mother = Beatrice da Correggio
| spouse = Taddea da Carrara
| issue = [[Cangrande II della Scala]] [[Cansignorio della Scala]] [[Paolo Alboino della Scala]] [[Beatrice Regina della Scala]]
| birth_date = 1308
| birth_place = [[Verona]]
| death_date = {{death date|1351|6|3|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Verona]]
}}
'''Mastino II della Scala''' (1308 – 3 June 1351) was lord of [[Verona]]. He was a member of the famous [[Scaliger]] family of [[Northern Italy]].

He was the son of [[Alboino I della Scala]] and Beatrice da Correggio. At the death of [[Cangrande I della Scala|Cangrande I]], he and his brother [[Alberto II della Scala|Alberto II]] were associated with the rule of Verona. Soon, however, Mastino's independent attitude overshadowed his brother's presence. In the first part of his reign, abandoning the careful policy of balance held by his father, he conquered [[Brescia]] (1332), [[Parma]] (1335) in Lombardy and [[Lucca]] (1335) in Tuscany.

However, the extension of Mastino's power spurred the creation of the league of all the other local powers ([[Florence]], [[republic of Siena|Siena]], [[Bologna]], [[Perugia]] and [[History of the Republic of Venice|Venice]]). In the first year of the [[Scaliger War|subsequent war]], he managed to resist, but in 1337 the League was joined by [[Azzone Visconti]] of [[Milan]], the [[Este family|Este]] of [[Ferrara]], the [[House of Gonzaga|Gonzaga]] of [[Mantua]] and the [[Papal States]]. Surrounded by every side, he could only ask for a treaty of peace through the intermediation of [[Emperor Louis IV]] of Bavaria, which he obtained in 1339. His territories were restricted to Verona and [[Vicenza]], the remaining part split among the victorious enemies.

An attempt to recover part of his lands with the German mercenaries that had remained in Vicenza after the war, led by [[Lodrisio Visconti]], was unsuccessful.

He died in Verona in 1351. He is buried in the Gothic mausoleum near the church of Santa Maria Antica, in one of the [[Scaliger Tombs]].

==Family==
In 1328 he married Taddea [[Carraresi|da Carrara]] (daughter of [[Jacopo I da Carrara|Jacopo I]] of [[Padua]]) and Anna [[Gradenigo]] (daughter of [[Pietro Gradenigo]]).

'''<big>Issue</big>'''
* [[Verde della scalla|Verde]] (d. 1394) married [[Niccolò II d'Este]], Marquis of Ferrara<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Oberbayern |first=Historischer Verein Von |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EMI7ASCrs8AC&dq=%22giacomo+pepoli%22+della+scala+1342&pg=PA88 |title=Oberbayerisches Archiv Für Vaterländische Geschichte |date=1871 |publisher=Verlag d. Hist. Vereins |isbn=978-0-341-58959-4 |language=de}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Simonyi |first=Ludwig von |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gH45AAAAcAAJ&dq=Ludwig+vi+of+Brandenburg+%22altaluna%22&pg=PA112 |title=Geschichte der Lombardischen und Venezianischen Städte: seit dem Congresse von Pontida bis zum J. 1420, jener Mantuas bis 1708 oder Geschichte ihrer Selbstherrschaft bis zur Vereinigung mit Mailand und Venedig |date=1847 |publisher=Aus der Buchdrückerei des Alois Pirola |language=de}}</ref>
*[[Cangrande II della Scala|Cangrande]] (1332–1359) Married to Elisabeth of Bavaria daughter of [[Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor]]
*[[Alboino II della Scala|Alboino]] (1333–1375)
*[[Cansignorio della Scala|Cansignorio]] (c. 1334–1375) Married to [[Agnes of Durazzo]]
* [[Beatrice Regina della Scala]] (1331 – 18 June 1384), who married [[Bernabò Visconti]] on 27 September 1350
* Caterina<ref name=":1" /> married to the condottiero Aldrighetto di Castelbarco
* Altaluna,(1338-?)<ref name=":1" /> who married [[Louis V, Duke of Bavaria|Louis of Bavaria]]<ref name=":1" />
* Veronese, who married [[Giacomo Trissino]]<ref name=":1" />
* Giovanni
His illegitimate children include:
*Fregnano<ref name=":1" /> (died 1394<ref name=":0" />)
*Margherita<ref name=":1" /> Became a nun.<ref name=":0" />
*Aimonte<ref name=":1" /> (?- -?) Prior at [[San Giorgio in Braida, Verona|San Giorgio in Braida]]<ref name=":0" />
*Pietro<ref name=":1" /> (1330-1392), [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Lodi|Bishop of Lodi]]
*A daughter married in 1342 to Giacomo [[Pepoli]]<ref name=":0" />

==References==
{{reflist}}
*{{cite book|first=G.M. |last=Varanini|title=Gli Scaligeri 1277-1387|location=Milan|publisher=Mondadori|year=1988}}
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{{S-ttl|rows=1|years=1329–1351 With [[Alberto II della Scala|Alberto II]]|title=Lord of [[Verona]] and [[Vicenza]]}}
{{S-aft|rows=1|after=[[Alberto II della Scala]]}}
{{S-ttl|rows=1|years=1329–1337|title=Lord of [[Padua]] With [[Alberto II della Scala|Alberto II]]}}
{{S-aft|rows=1|after=[[Marsilio da Carrara]]}}
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{{Scaliger lords of Verona}}
{{Authority control}}

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[[Category:1351 deaths|Scala, Mastino 2]]
[[Category:Scaliger family|Mastino 2]]
[[Category:Burials at Santa Maria Antica, Verona]]
[[Category:14th-century Italian nobility]]
[[Category:Lords of Verona]]
[[Category:Lords of Padua]]

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