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...

Cosmopoiesis. The Renaissance Experiment.(Book Review) Renaissance Quarterly (6/22/2003)
...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...

The Art of Renaissance Warfare: From the Fall of Constantinople to the Thirty Years War.(Book review) Renaissance Quarterly (12/22/2006)
...decade before as a result of the groundbreaking performance of siege artillery during the so-called War of the Pazzi Conspiracy (1478-80). In fact, the author largely overlooks the Italian side of the story, and the only military writers...

NOVEL IDEA Beacon News, The (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...

Half-Serious Rhymes: The Narrative Poetry of Luigi Pulci.(Review) The Modern Language Review (7/1/1999)
...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...

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...

Botticelli's Venus and Mars and other apotropaic art for Tuscan bedrooms.(Critical essay) Aurora, The Journal of the History of Art (1/1/2006)
...and Giovanni needed apotropaic imagery. Jacopo was a member of a family that had challenged Medici rule during the Pazzi conspiracy. The marriage was integral to Lorenzo's strategy of neutralizing conspirators by including his rivals in a broad...

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...