Upon hearing of Castruccio's illness, Galeazzo Visconti demanded to be taken to him, despite his own illness. He made it to Pescia, about halfway between Lucca and Pistoia, before dying. "On the same day, and at the same hour, Castruccio died at Lucca" (441). Mary Shelley's ending to Valperga is lightly fictionalized. Galeazzo I Visconti died of malaria on August 6, 1328 in Pescia. Castruccio Castracani died a month later, also of malaria, on September 3. They are both buried in Lucca.