Medici assassination is recalled in song with Placido Domingo. The Star (Amman, Jordan) (6/14/2010)
...Hoelterhoff When it comes to conspiracy, nothing can beat the Pazzi plot of 1478, when one family...cathedral, assassins sent by the Pazzi banking family attacked the...a forgotten opera about the Pazzi conspiracy: AoI MediciAo...

To illuminate history: making history picture-perfect. Teaching History: A Journal of Methods (9/22/2005)
...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...

November 24-30, 2008 The Washington Post (11/23/2008)
...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...

The Medici in Florence: The Exercise and Language of Power. Renaissance Quarterly (6/22/1995)
...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...

Giovanni Lanfredini: Uomo d'affari e diplomatico nell'Italia del Quattrocento.(Book review) Renaissance Quarterly (9/22/2008)
...better lines. "I feel myself come into some strange labyrinth," he confesses to Lanfredini not long after the Pazzi conspiracy (113). When Giovanni himself was prostrated with grief at the death of his teenage son Orsino (who had killed...

NOVEL IDEA The Beacon News - Aurora (IL) (4/23/2000)
...Verrocchio, a corpulent man of nobility, visits Leonardo Da Vinci on a sun-split Sunday. They discuss the Pazzi conspiracy which had left "27 victims to perish by vengeful swords." Leonardo is subsequently commissioned by the Seigniory...

Why Renaissance? Why Florence? Jon Cook identifies the mix of factors that helps explain the Florentine Renaissance.(Talking Points) History Review (12/1/2003)
...political skill and careful election management to survive. The most spectacular challenge to their authority was the Pazzi conspiracy, in which Lorenzo de Medici was attacked and his brother Giuliano killed whilst celebrating mass in the cathedral...

Ring around historical questions.(COMMENTARY) The Washington Times (Washington, DC) (10/11/2006)
...chronicles, an orator so stirred up the crowd that it turned on somebody and ate him. In 1478, the leaders of the Pazzi conspiracy to murder the heads of the Medici family were hanged from the windows of the town hall, just above the ringhiera...

BRILLIANCE, SCHOLARSHIP BRING NEW COLOR TO MICHELANGELO.(Perspective) Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) (5/7/1989)
...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...