"The Pazzi Conspiracy: The Plot Against the Medici" 1979 Acton, Harold

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ACTON, Harold

[128] pp.

Thames and Hudson

1979

9 1/2" x 6 5/8"

The Pazzi conspiracy (Italian: Congiura dei Pazzi) … Read more ACTON, Harold

[128] pp.

Thames and Hudson

1979

9 1/2" x 6 5/8"

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 (Easter Sunday) there was an attempt to assassinate Lorenzo de' Medici and his brother Giuliano. Lorenzo was wounded but survived; Giuliano was killed.

More than eighty people implicated in the plot were executed, some by hanging from the windows of the Palazzo della Signoria. The surviving Pazzi family members were banished from Florence. See less