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The Pazzi conspiracy (Italian: Congiura dei Pazzi) was a failed plot by members of the Pazzi family and others to displace the Medici family as rulers of Renaissance Florence. On 26 April 1478 there was an attempt to assassinate Lorenzo de' Medici and his brother Giuliano. Lorenzo was wounded but survived; Giuliano was killed.
The Pazzi were a powerful family in the Republic of Florence.Their main trade during the fifteenth century was banking. In the aftermath of the Pazzi conspiracy in 1478, members of the family were banished from Florence and their property was confiscated; the family name and coat-of-arms were permanently suppressed by order of the Signoria.
Jacopo de' Pazzi (1423 – 26 April 1478) was a Florentine banker who became head of the Pazzi family in 1464, and the younger child of Andrea de' Pazzi and Costanza de' Bardi. [1] He commissioned Palazzo Pazzi between 1462 and 1472. [2] Stefano di Ser Niccolo da Bagnone served as a secretary to Jacopo and tutor to his daughter Caterina. [3]
Francesco de' Pazzi (28 January 1444 – 26 April 1478) was a Florentine banker, a member of the Pazzi noble family, and one of the instigators of the Pazzi conspiracy, a plot to displace the Medici family as rulers of the Florentine Republic. His uncle, Jacopo de' Pazzi, was one of the main organizers of the conspiracy. [1]
Giuliano de' Medici (28 October 1453 – 26 April 1478) [1] was the second son of Piero de' Medici (the Gouty) and Lucrezia Tornabuoni.As co-ruler of Florence, with his brother Lorenzo the Magnificent, he complemented his brother's image as the "patron of the arts" with his own image as the handsome, sporting "golden boy".
The Medici family, who ruled the Republic of Florence at the time, opposed his appointment as archbishop, and so Salviati met with several other individuals dissatisfied with the Medici's rule to plan the assassination of Lorenzo and Giuliano de ' Medici, co-rulers of Florence, in what later became known as the Pazzi conspiracy. In spring 1478 ...
Hanging of Bernardo Baroncelli, Leonardo da Vinci, 1479.Pazzi Conspirator. Giulio de' Medici's life began under tragic circumstances. On 26 April 1478—exactly one month before his birth—his father, Giuliano de Medici (brother of Lorenzo the Magnificent) was murdered in the Florence Cathedral by enemies of his family, in what is now known as the "Pazzi conspiracy". [17]
26 April 1478 Stefano da Bagnone (1418 - 3 May 1478) was an Italian presbyterian, known for having taken part in the Pazzi conspiracy against Lorenzo de' Medici . Biography