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...

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...

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...

Lucrezia Tornabuoni de' Medici. Sacred Narratives.(Italian Bookshelf)(Book review) Annali d'Italianistica (1/1/2002)
...Florence's history when Lorenzo, just twenty years old, rose to power, and only a few years before the tragic Pazzi Conspiracy (1478) in which Lorenzo's younger brother, Giuliano, was assassinated. Lucrezia was a witness to these events...