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'In Sodom and Gomorrah':
The Piagnoni in Adversity and
the Espousal of Radicalism

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Giuliano de' Medici entered Florence on 1 September 1512, the
day after Soderini had been seized and forcibly removed from
office. 1 He returned ostensibly as a private citizen but, in reality, as
the head of a faction dedicated to the restoration of the Medici
regime. 2 In the same month, with the calling of a parlamento and the
appointment of a Balìa after prolonged conflict with the republican
Ottimati, the first steps were taken towards the realization of this
aim. 3 Thus began a process which eventually resulted in the de-

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1 Bartolomeo Cerretani, "Storia in dialogo, della mutatione di Firenze", MS
BNF II.I.106, fo. 149r; Giovanni Cambi, Istorie, ed. I. di San Luigi (4 vols.; Flor-
ence, 1785-6), ii. 308-10; Iacopo Nardi, Istorie della città di Firenze, ed. A. Gelli
(2 vols.; Florence, 1858), i. 428-30; Francesco Vettori, Sommario della storia
d'Italia, in Scritti storici e politici, ed. F. Nicolini ( Bari, 1972), 143-4. For details
of the revolution of 1512, see R. Devonshire-Jones, Francesco Vettori, Florentine
Citizen and Medici Servant ( London, 1972), ch. iv, esp. pp. 66 ff.; F. Gilbert,
Machiavelli and Guicciardini: Politics and History in Sixteenth Century Florence
( Princeton, NJ, 1965), 131-6; H. C. Butters, Governors and Government in Early
Sixteenth-Century Florence, 1502-1519 ( Oxford, 1985), 167-85.
2 The best account of the aims and activities of this faction is to be found in
Cerretani, "Storia in dialogo", fos. 149r ff.
3 Ibid., fos. 150r-154r ; Lorenzo Strozzi, La vita di Filippo Strozzi, figlio di
Filippo, in J. Graevius (ed.), Thesaurus antiquitatum et historiarum Italiae, viii (2)
( Leiden, 1723), cols. 14-15; Filippo de' Nerli, Commentari dei fatti civili occorsi
dentro la città di Firenze dall'anno 1215 al 1537 (2 vols.; Trieste, 1859), i. 185-8;
Luca Landucci, Diario fiorentino, ed. I. del Badia ( Florence, 1883; repr. 1969),
328-9.

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Elect Nation: The Savonarolan Movement in Florence, 1494-1545. Contributors: Lorenzo Polizzotto - author. Publisher: Oxford University Press. Place of Publication: Oxford. Publication Year: 1994. Page Number: 239.
    
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