The Pazzi Conspiracy
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The Pazzi Conspiracy
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Author : Harold Acton
language : en
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Release Date : 1979-01-01
The Pazzi Conspiracy written by Harold Acton and has been published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979-01-01 with Florence categories.
April Blood
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Author : Lauro Martines
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2003-04-24
April Blood written by Lauro Martines and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-04-24 with History categories.
One of the world's leading historians of Renaissance Italy brings to life here the vibrant--and violent--society of fifteenth-century Florence. His disturbing narrative opens up an entire culture, revealing the dark side of Renaissance man and politician Lorenzo de' Medici. On a Sunday in April 1478, assassins attacked Lorenzo and his brother as they attended Mass in the cathedral of Florence. Lorenzo scrambled to safety as Giuliano bled to death on the cathedral floor. April Blood moves outward in time and space from that murderous event, unfolding a story of tangled passions, ambition, treachery, and revenge. The conspiracy was led by one of the city's most noble clans, the Pazzi, financiers who feared and resented the Medici's swaggering new role as political bosses--but the web of intrigue spread through all of Italy. Bankers, mercenaries, the Duke of Urbino, the King of Naples, and Pope Sixtus IV entered secretly into the plot. Florence was plunged into a peninsular war, and Lorenzo was soon fighting for his own and his family's survival. The failed assassination doomed the Pazzi. Medici revenge was swift and brutal--plotters were hanged or beheaded, innocents were hacked to pieces, and bodies were put out to dangle from the windows of the government palace. All remaining members of the larger Pazzi clan were forced to change their surname, and every public sign or symbol of the family was expunged or destroyed. April Blood offers us a fresh portrait of Renaissance Florence, where dazzling artistic achievements went side by side with violence, craft, and bare-knuckle politics. At the center of the canvas is the figure of Lorenzo the Magnificent--poet, statesman, connoisseur, patron of the arts, and ruthless "boss of bosses." This extraordinarily vivid account of a turning point in the Italian Renaissance is bound to become a lasting work of history.
The Conspiracy Of Pazzi
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Author : Vittorio Alfieri
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1876
The Conspiracy Of Pazzi written by Vittorio Alfieri and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1876 with categories.
Magnificat
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Author : Jack Rein
language : en
Publisher: Booklocker.Com Incorporated
Release Date : 2008-06
Magnificat written by Jack Rein and has been published by Booklocker.Com Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06 with Fiction categories.
"Magnificat" tells the story of the Pazzi Conspiracy. In 1478, Florence and the Medici dazzle the world. The pope lusts after Florence for himself and resorts to murder to achieve the city. The continent plunges into war, and only a miracle saves Florence.
The Montefeltro Conspiracy
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Author : Marcello Simonetta
language : en
Publisher: Doubleday
Release Date : 2008-06-03
The Montefeltro Conspiracy written by Marcello Simonetta and has been published by Doubleday this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-03 with History categories.
A brutal murder, a nefarious plot, a coded letter. After five hundred years, the most notorious mystery of the Renaissance is finally solved. The Italian Renaissance is remembered as much for intrigue as it is for art, with papal politics and infighting among Italy’s many city-states providing the grist for Machiavelli’s classic work on take-no-prisoners politics, The Prince. The attempted assassination of the Medici brothers in the Duomo in Florence in 1478 is one of the best-known examples of the machinations endemic to the age. While the assailants were the Medici’s rivals, the Pazzi family, questions have always lingered about who really orchestrated the attack, which has come to be known as the Pazzi Conspiracy. More than five hundred years later, Marcello Simonetta, working in a private archive in Italy, stumbled upon a coded letter written by Federico da Montefeltro, the Duke of Urbino, to Pope Sixtus IV. Using a codebook written by his own ancestor to crack its secrets, Simonetta unearthed proof of an all-out power grab by the Pope for control of Florence. Montefeltro, long believed to be a close friend of Lorenzo de Medici, was in fact conspiring with the Pope to unseat the Medici and put the more malleable Pazzi in their place. In The Montefeltro Conspiracy, Simonetta unravels this plot, showing not only how the plot came together but how its failure (only one of the Medici brothers, Giuliano, was killed; Lorenzo survived) changed the course of Italian and papal history for generations. In the course of his gripping narrative, we encounter the period’s most colorful characters, relive its tumultuous politics, and discover that two famous paintings, including one in the Sistine Chapel, contain the Medici’s astounding revenge.
April Blood
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Author : Lauro Martines
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-01-31
April Blood written by Lauro Martines and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-31 with History categories.
In April 1478, a plot to murder the two heads of the powerful Medici family dramatically miscarried. The younger of the two brothers was killed, but Lorenzo the Magnificent, the brilliant poet and connoisseur escaped. A bloodbath followed and all of Italy was at once affected as it emerged that the Pope, the King of Naples, and the Duke of Urbino were deeply implicated in the plot, and that binding treaties required Milan and Venice to assist Florence. If the conspirators had succeeded and Lorenzo had been killed the future of the Medici family and, indeed, of the Florentine state would have been utterly transformed.
Portrait Of A Conspiracy
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Author : Donna Russo Morin
language : en
Publisher: Next Chapter
Release Date : 2021-12-07
Portrait Of A Conspiracy written by Donna Russo Morin and has been published by Next Chapter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-07 with Fiction categories.
In 15th century Florence, five women and a legendary artist weave together a dangerous plot that could bring peace - or get them all killed. Seeking to wrest power from the Medici, members of the Pazzi family slay the beloved Giuliano. But Lorenzo de' Medici survives the attack and seeks revenge on everyone involved, plunging the city into murderous chaos. Bodies are dragged through the streets, and no one is safe. Five women steal away to a church to ply their craft in secret. Viviana, Fiammetta, Isabetta, Natasia and Mattea are painters, not allowed to be public with their skill but freed from the restrictions in their lives by their art. When a sixth member of their group, Lapaccia, goes missing and is rumored to have stolen a much sought-after painting before she vanished, the women must venture out into the dangerous streets to find their friend. They will have help from one of the most renowned painters of their era: the peaceful and kind Leonardo da Vinci. It is under his tutelage that they flourish as artists and with his access that they infiltrate some of the highest, most secretive places in Florence, unraveling one conspiracy as they build another in its place. Vibrant and absorbing, Portrait Of A Conspiracy is the first novel in Donna Russo Morin's Da Vinci's Disciples series.
Machiavelli And Political Conspiracies
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Author : Alessandro Campi
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-06-27
Machiavelli And Political Conspiracies written by Alessandro Campi and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-27 with History categories.
The theme of conspiracy is central to Machiavelli's writing. His work offers observations and analysis of conspiracy as part of the armoury of the Renaissance politician. Surprisingly, the theme has not yet received the attention it merits. This volume corrects an interpretation which reduces Machiavelli's position to one of censorious observer of conspiracies. Quite to the contrary, as Campi demonstrates, Machiavelli developed an anatomy of conspiracy and provided a practical manual for coup d'état" and violent seizure of power.
Images Of Quattrocento Florence
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Author : Stefano Ugo Baldassarri
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2000-01-01
Images Of Quattrocento Florence written by Stefano Ugo Baldassarri and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-01 with History categories.
This anthology provides a panoramic view of fifteenth-century Florence in the words of the city's own citizens and visitors. The fifty-one selections offer glimpses into Renaissance thought. Together, the documents demonstrate the social, political, religious, and cultural impact Florence had in shaping the Italian and European Renaissance, and they reveal how Florence created, developed, and diffused the mythology of its own origins and glory. The documents point up the divergences in quattrocento accounts of the origins of Florence, and they reveal the importance of the city's economy, social life, and military success to the formation of its image. The book includes sources that elaborate on the city's accomplishments in literature and the visual arts, others that present major trends in Florentine religious life, and still others that attest to the acclaim and admiration that Florence evoked from foreign visitors. The editors also provide an informative introduction, a detailed chronology of fifteenth-century Italy, maps, photographs, an annotated bibliography, and a biographical sketch of the author of each document.
1478 A Year In Leonardo Da Vinci S Career
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Author : Edoardo Villata
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-04
1478 A Year In Leonardo Da Vinci S Career written by Edoardo Villata and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04 with categories.
1478 was the year in which Leonardo da Vinci, aged 26, obtained his first official commission and witnessed the Pazzi Conspiracy against the Medici family. In that year, he probably opened his independent workshop, leaving that of his master Andrea del Verrocchio, and, in its final months, he began to paint two paintings representing the Virgin Mary. One of these paintings is very likely the Benois Madonna at the State Hermitage, St. Petersburg; a work that marks a strong change in Leonardo's style and power of expression and his representation of light and human emotions. This book provides an in-depth analysis of Leonardo's growth as an artist in this year, detailing his training, his culture, his collaboration with Verrocchio, and his engagement in the artistic and cultural life of 1460s and 1470s Florence.