PAZZI CONSPIRACY

pätˈtsē, 1478, plot against Lorenzo de' Medici (Lorenzo il Magnifico) and his brother Giuliano, designed to end the hegemony of the Medici in the Florentine state and to enlarge papal territory. It was instigated by Pope Sixtus IV, his nephew Gerolamo Riario, Archbishop Salviati, and members of the Pazzi family, a wealthy Florentine family that rivaled the Medici. Actually, the Pazzi were tools in the conspiracy, which aimed not only at the death of the Medici, but at the elevation of Riario to power in Florence. Details of the plot were worked out by Salviati and the Pazzi while Riario and the pope remained in Rome. On Apr. 26, during High Mass at the cathedral, Giuliano de' Medici was stabbed to death, while Lorenzo escaped with a wound. The enraged Florentines seized and killed the conspirators. The Medici remained firmly entrenched in power.

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books on: Pazzi Conspiracy  - 121 results

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Economic and Social History of Europe in the Later Middle Ages (1300-1530)
Book by James Westfall Thompson; Century, 1931
Subjects: Europe--Economic Conditions, Europe--Social Conditions, Middle Ages--History
...the apostolic exchequer to the bank of the Pazzi family, a business and social rival of...Florence. Matters culminated in 1478 in the Pazzi conspiracy, which was an effort on the part of the Pazzi and their partisans, of whom the pope was...
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The Earthly Republic: Italian Humanists on Government and Society - Vol. 8
Book by Benjamin G. Kohl, Ronald G. Witt, Elizabeth B. Welles; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1978
Subjects: Humanism, Renaissance--Italy
...atmosphere that was the aftermath of the Pazzi Conspiracy. The poet turned instead to writing...Medici but all of Florence. The Pazzi Conspiracy was a shocking and violent...to be convinced by Francesco de Pazzi, head of the Pazzi bank in Rome...
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The Hutchinson Encyclopedia of the Renaissance
Book by David Rundle; Westview Press, 1999
Subjects: Renaissance--Encyclopedias
...organized a league against Charles V. Pazzi conspiracy Attempt to assassinate the leading Medici on 26 April 1478. The Pazzi family were one of the patrician...they commissioned the austere Pazzi chapel at S Croce from Filippo Brunelleschi...
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Lives of the Early Medici
Book by Janet Ross; Chatto & Windus, 1910
Subjects: Florence (Italy)--History, Medici, Cosimo de'--1389-1464, Medici, House of, Medici, Lorenzo de'--1449-1492, Medici, Piero de'--1416-1469
...155 , 156 , 167 implicated. in the Pazzi conspiracy, 186 , 187 , 188 ; letter to, from Louis XI. on the Pazzi conspiracy, 193 ; 196 , 197 , 199...nephew of Sixtus IV., 175 ; joins in the Pazzi conspiracy, 187 , 188 ; accused by Louis...
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Society and Individual in Renaissance Florence
Book by William J. Connell; University of California Press, 2002
Subjects: Florence (Italy)--Civilization, Renaissance--Italy--Florence
...City. In written accounts of the Pazzi Conspiracy, the attack on Giuliano and Lorenzo...the king of Naples following the Pazzi Conspiracy. 27 See J. McManamon...wine: see Angelo Poliziano, The Pazzi Conspiracy, trans. E. B. Welles...
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journal articles on: Pazzi Conspiracy  - 23 results

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The Master Fool the Conspiracy of Machiavelli's Mandragola
Journal article by Michael Palmer, James F. Pontuso; Perspectives on Political Science, Vol. 25, 1996
Subjects: Political Science--Study And Teaching--Periodicals
...Discourses , "On Conspiracies" (3.6) provides...than sixty-five conspiracies from ancient and modern...those dealing with the conspiracy against the Sforza...of book 7, and the Pazzi conspiracy against the Medici...of relating these conspiracies, in the opening sentence...
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Laurentian Patronage in the Palazzo Vecchio: the Frescoes of the Sala Dei Gigli
Journal article by Melinda Hegarty; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 78, 1996
Subjects: Art criticism, Art history, Castles & palaces, De Medici, Lorenzo (Lorenzo the Magnificent) (1449-92), Florence Italy, Patronage
...however, in the aftermath of the Pazzi conspiracy of April 26, 1478.25 In that...Florence in the aftermath of the Pazzi conspiracy, Ghirlandaio, Botticelli...from the perpetrators of the Pazzi conspiracy, Lorenzo found refuge in the...
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Appropriating the Instruments of Worship: The 1512 Medici Restoration and the Florentine Cathedral Choirbooks *
Journal article by Marica S. Tacconi; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 56, 2003
Subjects: Book and manuscript illumination--16th century AD, Book and manuscript illumination--Criticism and interpretation, Florence, Italy--History, Illumination of books and manuscripts--16th century AD, Illumination of books and manuscripts--Criticism and interpretation, Manuscripts, Renaissance--16th century AD, Manuscripts, Renaissance--Criticism and interpretation, Medici, Giuliano de--Influence, Renaissance manuscripts--16th century AD, Renaissance manuscripts--Criticism and interpretation
...Congiura--the Palace of the Conspiracy--as it was the residence of Francesco de Pazzi, one of the men who...shrine. Following the Pazzi conspiracy of 1478, that space was...the saints chapel. The Pazzi conspiracy and the subsequent...
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Portraits and Masks in the Art of Lorenzo De' Medici, Botticelli, and Politian's 'Stanze per la Giostra.'
Journal article by Charles Dempsey; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 52, 1999
Subjects: Botticelli, Sandro--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Masks in art--Analysis, Medici, Lorenzo de--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Painting, Renaissance--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...ten-year hiatus caused by the catastrophe of the Pazzi conspiracy and the wars that followed, up to Lorenzos death...confortini is datable before 1478 (the year of the Pazzi Conspiracy), and very possibly as early as 1474 (ten years...
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Donatello's Bronze David and Judith as Metaphors of Medici Rule in Florence
Journal article by Sarah Blake McHam; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 83, 2001
Subjects: Art criticism, Art history, Donatello (1386?-1466), Florence Italy, John of Salisbury (1115?-80), Sculpture, Social life & customs, Writers
...state.70 In 1476 the Olgiati Conspiracy in Milan resulted in the murder...a couple of years later the Pazzi Conspiracy in Florence succeeded...Milanese counterparts, the Pazzi conspirators did not justify...in which he likened the Pazzi conspirators to the heroic...
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magazine articles on: Pazzi Conspiracy  - 3 results

 
 
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Marsilio Ficino Renaissance Man
Magazine article by Valery Rees; History Today, Vol. 49, July 1999
Subjects: Ficino, Marsilio--Influence, Italy--15th century, Philosophers--Influence, Scholars--Influence
...incurring the wrath or censure of the Church. That wrath could be expressed in many ways: following the failure of the Pazzi conspiracy against the Medici family, Florence was put under interdict by the Pope, and was then attacked in a bitter war...
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Ferrante of Naples: The Statecraft of a Renaissance Prince
Magazine article by David Abulafia; History Today, Vol. 45, February 1995
Subjects: Ferrante, King of Naples--Political activity, Italy--History, Kings and rulers--Biography, Naples, Italy--Kings and rulers
...Medici within Florence, characterising it as a tyranny under the mask of respect for a republican constitution. The Pazzi conspiracy against the Medici, from which Lorenzo himself escaped, culminated in a joint campaign by Ferrantes son, Alfonso...
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Sperandio's Medals
Magazine article by Luke Syson; History Today, Vol. 45, April 1995
Subjects: Bentivoglio, Giovanni--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Da Montefeltro, Federico--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Medals--History, Sperandio--Works
...the scholar Pier Candido Decembrio and the first edition of Bertoldo di Giovannis medal commemorating the failed Pazzi conspiracy against Medici rule in Florence was four. However, it is clear that they were often quickly copied, though whether...


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Ring around Historical Questions
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 11, 2006
...chronicles, an orator so stirred up the crowd that it turned on somebody and ate him. In 1478, the leaders of the Pazzi conspiracy to murder the heads of the Medici family were hanged from the windows of the town hall, just above the ringhiera...
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A Florentine Family Tires of Medici Rule
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 18, 2003
...Pieros departure, the Pazzi were invited back with...principal consequence of the conspiracy and its aftermath was...guidance of Andrea de Pazzi, father of Jacopo who...three nephews, led the conspiracy. Lorenzo, feeling threatened...trying to squeeze the Pazzi out of public office...
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Teamsters Leader Has One Hope, Hoffa Says: Only Clinton Could Keep Carey in Race for Union President
Newspaper article by Bill Sammon; The Washington Times, November 13, 1997
Subjects: Carey, Ron, Hoffa, James P., International Brotherhood of Teamsters
...Mr. Conboy will do," Mr. Pazzi said. "I hope he will do...fear that he may not." Mr. Pazzi argued that Mr. Conboy was...to not exist at all," Mr. Pazzi said. Mr. Conboy declined...officials. "Hoffa is cooking up conspiracy theories and kooky ideas...
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The Horror of True Crime; (1) A Monster in Florence: Dr Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) in the Film Hannibal. the Character's Creator, Thomas Harris, Was Partly Inspired by the Mostro Di Firenze Case Detailed in Preston and Spezi's Non-Fiction Account (2) Identikit: A Likeness of the Monster Prepared after the 1981 Double Murder
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), January 5, 2009
Subjects: Preston, Douglas--Cases
...novel, Hannibal, as "Rinaldo Pazzi" inflicting a lot more than...After his fall from grace, Pazzi attempts to sell Hannibal Lecter...Instead, Lecter captures Pazzi and, in violent pantomime...prosecutors have been led so far into conspiracy theory that he doubts they...
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Machiavelli's Immortal Look at Livy
Newspaper article by Colin Walters; The Washington Times, August 11, 1996
Subjects: Machiavelli, Niccolo
...Niccolo Machiavellis chapter on conspiracy, the translators of this new...Mass on April 26, 1478, the Pazzi family made their famous attempt...did Antonio da Volterra, the Pazzi conspirator designated to stab...extraordinary, not excluding fraud and conspiracy, spectacular executions...


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encyclopedia articles on: Pazzi Conspiracy  - 5 results

 
 
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Pazzi Conspiracy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PAZZI CONSPIRACY pat tse, 1478, plot against Lorenzo...Archbishop Salviati, and members of the Pazzi family, a wealthy Florentine family that rivaled the Medici. Actually, the Pazzi were tools in the conspiracy, which aimed...
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Medici, Lorenzo De' , 1449–92, Italian Merchant Prince
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...government alarmed Pope Sixtus IV , who helped to foment the Pazzi conspiracy (1478) against Lorenzo and his brother, Giuliano...the plot collapsed. Lorenzo retaliated against the Pazzi, and Sixtus excommunicated him and laid an interdict...
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Sixtus IV
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...efforts to replace Ferdinand I of Naples with a Frenchman. A quarrel with Lorenzo de Medici became critical after the Pazzi conspiracy (1478), since an important instigator was Girolamo Riario, nephew of Sixtus, and the pope seems to have had...
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Florence , City, Italy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the Medici family ruled, and Lorenzo de Medici, who held power from 1469 to 1492, was able to put down the Pazzi conspiracy (1478), instigated by Pope Sixtus IV. Under Lorenzo and his successors, Florence was for two centuries the golden...
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Medici , Italian Family
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...expelled from Florence in 1433 34, from 1494 to 1512, and from 1527 to 1530. However, the attempts (such as the Pazzi conspiracy , 1478) of the Florentine republicans to restore the former liberties failed ultimately because of the Medicis wealth...


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