It was not uncommon to buy cities together with their Signory.

Thus the Rossi bought Parma for 35,000 florins in 1333; the Appiani sold Pisa; Astorre Manfredi sold Faenza and Imola in 1377.

In 1444 Galeazzo Malatesta sold Pesaro to Alessandro Sforza, and Fossombrone to Urbino; in 1461 Cervia was sold to Venice by the same family.

Franceschetto Cibo purchased the County of Anguillara.

Towns at last came to have their market value.