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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 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.
Date of birth/death: circa 1485 : 15 June 1547: Location of birth/death: Venice: Rome: ... Giulio di Giuliano de' Medici was son of Giuliano de' Medici and nephew of ...
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]
Giuliano was stabbed to death by Baroncelli and Franceso de' Pazzi, but Lorenzo was only wounded by the other conspirators and managed to escape; [3] Baroncelli also killed a Medici retainer, Francesco Nori. [1] After the failure of the plot, Baroncelli fled Italy, but was eventually found and arrested in Constantinople. [4]
She was twenty-two at the time of her death. She was carried through the city in an open coffin for all to admire, and there may have existed a posthumous cult about her in Florence. [11] Her husband remarried soon afterward. Giuliano de Medici was assassinated in the Pazzi conspiracy on 26 April 1478, two years to the day after Simonetta's ...
The conspirators then decided to eliminate the Medici brothers during the Easter mass on 26 April 1478, in the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore. However, Montesecco refused to kill on sacred ground, so the task of killing Lorenzo was entrusted to Stefano, Antonio Maffei and Bernardo Bandini .
The Portrait of Giuliano de' Medici is a painting of Giuliano de' Medici (1453–1478) by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli, probably painted soon before Giuliano was assassinated in the Pazzi conspiracy in 1478. It belongs to the Berlin State Museums, and is in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. [1]