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Painters, poets, patrons, plotters The Pazzi conspiracy to overthrow the Medici - and its brutal aftermath - shows the flip-side of Renaissance Florence, says John Adamson
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 2/16/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...lasting consequences than the Pazzi conspiracy of April 1478: the botched coup...than their banking rivals, the Pazzi. Only by destroying the Medici...was concluding, Francesco de' Pazzi rushed forward and furiously stabbed...
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Beaufrand, Mary Jane. Primavera.(Young adult review)(Book review)(Brief review)
Magazine article from: Kliatt; 3/1/2008; ; 633 words
; ...Pazzi to an eligible Medici son. But Signor Pazzi is moving in a military direction. As plans...with the extreme and brutal violence of the Pazzi Conspiracy. This fictional account of Flora Pazzi brings another side of the Renaissance into...
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To illuminate history: making history picture-perfect.
Magazine article from: Teaching History: A Journal of Methods; 9/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...prominent role when my class examines the Pazzi Conspiracy of 1478, a plot to kill Lorenzo de Medici...consent of citizens in order to rule. The conspiracy was hatched by a rival business family, the Pazzi, and had the support of Pope Sixtus IV...
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Art: Mine is the power and the glory Renaissance Florence: The Art of the 1470s National Gallery, London
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 10/24/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...to this puzzle. In 1478, conspirators backed by the Pazzi family attacked the Medici brothers at Mass in Florence...in the fray, Lorenzo was stabbed in the neck. The Pazzi conspiracy was merely the most dramatic sign of an anti-Medicean...
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November 24-30, 2008
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/23/2008; 700+ words
; ...Historian Marcello Simonetta, author of The Montefeltro Conspiracy: A Renaissance Mystery Decoded, presents a lecture...Ave. NW. Simonetta's book is an account of the Pazzi Conspiracy, a 15th-century assassination attempt on the Medici...
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The Medici in Florence: The Exercise and Language of Power.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...threatening to Medici power (Piero de' Medici's opponents in 1466 had been knighted by the Parte). Following the Pazzi conspiracy the Medici, while acquiescing in its existence, emasculated the Parte. The essay on Lorenzo and the Reformers...
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BRILLIANCE, SCHOLARSHIP BRING NEW COLOR TO MICHELANGELO.(Perspective)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 5/7/1989; 700+ words
; ...meditation on metaphysics, the poem tells a powerful story with characters we come to care about. We learn of the Pazzi Conspiracy, a coup in Florence in which priests carried out stabbings in church and 80 people were hanged. "And then the...
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Zero tolerance in Florence
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 4/15/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...firmly in that Florentine ambience whose outlines he drew with such masterly strokes in April Blood, a study of the Pazzi conspiracy and Lorenzo de' Medici's rise to power. Seward, a practising Catholic, is eager that we should see his subject...
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Cosmopoiesis. The Renaissance Experiment.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...thin veil for the chaos that can erupt at any moment. More than a post-Edenic allegory, in the aftermath of the Pazzi conspiracy, the making project of the Orfeo might also be read as "a trenchant critique of a wholly Neoplatonic way of looking...
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Half-Serious Rhymes: The Narrative Poetry of Luigi Pulci.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Orlando. In Chapter 4, Davie sets the continuation of Morgante and Ciriffo Calvaneo against the background of the Pazzi conspiracy of April 1478. Pulci was now searching for new leads, using Orlando selectively but attentively, exploiting comic...
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Pazzi conspiracy
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Pazzi conspiracy , 1478, plot against Lorenzo de' Medici...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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Pazzi Conspiracy
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Pazzi Conspiracy (1478) An unsuccessful plot to overthrow the MEDICI rulers of Florence. Their rivals, the Pazzi family, backed by Pope Sixtus IV, conspired to murder Giuliano and Lorenzo...
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Lorenzo de' Medici
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...it was Lorenzo who imported large amounts of grain. Pazzi Conspiracy and Aftermath Although it was a maxim of Medici policy...his brother Giuliano. The chief conspirators were the Pazzi family, a rival banking house and bitter enemies of...
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Sixtus IV
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...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
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...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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