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The House Of Medici

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by Christopher Hibbert


  Spini, Bartolommeo, 49

  Spini, House of, 35, 37

  Squarcialupi, Antonio, 165, 172

  Stefano da Bagnone, Fra, 136, 137–8, 141

  Stendhal, pseud. of Marie Henri Beyle, 325

  Strozzi family, 314

  Strozzi, Clarice, née Medici, Clarice di Piero de’, 202, 248

  Strozzi, Filippo the Elder (1428–91), 137, 168, 323–4

  Strozzi, Filippo the Younger (1489–1538), 262, 323

  Strozzi, Laodamia, 179

  Strozzi, Lorenzo di Palla, 38

  Strozzi, Marietta di Lorenzo, 118–19

  Strozzi, Matteo, 58

  Strozzi, Palla (1372–1462), 38, and the Albizzi, 52; and Rinaldo degli Albizzi, 55, 56–7; banished, 59; Parentucelli and, 87; commissions Gentile da Fabriano, 314

  Strozzi, Piero, 263–4

  Stufa, Sigismondo della, 138

  Sumptuary laws, 22, 24

  Sustermans, Justus, 283

  Switzerland, Swiss army in Lombardy, 209; Leo X and, 220

  Tacca, Ferdinando, 286, 332

  Tacca, Pietro, 328, 331

  Tadda, Romolo del, 328, 332

  Talenti, Simone, 329

  Tasso, Giovanni Battista, 313

  Tinucci, Niccolò, 51

  Titian, prop. Tiziano Vercelli (d. 1576), 328, 332

  Tornabuoni family, 43, 102

  Tornabuoni, Francesco, 114

  Tornabuoni, Giovanni, 103, 106, 114, 178, 319

  Tornabuoni, Lucrezia, see Medici, Lucrezia de’

  Trade, in 15th century Florence, 20; guilds, 25–6; merchants and, 28–9; wool, 33, 34, 152; silk, 42; in decline, 293

  Tranchedini da Pontremoli, Nicodemo, 83 97

  Traversari, Ambrogio, 44, 47, 51, 66, 67

  Treaties,

  Barcelona (1529), 249

  Lodi (1454), 85

  Montil-les-Tours (1452), 84

  Tribolo, Niccolò Pericoli, 271, 274, 323, 329

  Trissino, Gian-Giorgio, 227

  Turkey, and Constantinople, 64, 68, 85; Venice and, 79, 83; Florence and, 83; and Italy, 84, 159, 160; and Smyrna alum mines, 88; Savonarola’s prediction about, 182; battle of Lepanto, 266

  Uccello, Paolo, prop. Paolo di Dono, 108, 320

  Università degli Studi, 315

  University of Florence, 45, 46, 47–8, 170, 274

  University of Padua, 282

  University of Pisa, 274, 282, 297

  University of Rome, 228

  Urbino, Battista da Montefeltro, Duchess of, née Sforza, 332

  Urbino, Caterina, Duchess of, see Medici, Caterina di Lorenzo de’

  Urbino, Duchess of, née Madeleine de la Tour d’auvergne, 235

  Urbino, Duchy of, 219, 222, 224, 285

  Urbino, Duke of, see Medici, Lorenzo di Piero de’

  Urbino, Ferderigo da Montefeltro, Duke of, loses an eye, 116; attacks Volterra, 126–7; and Eugenius IV, 129; papal troops under, 150; and printed books, 169

  Urbino, Francesco, 165

  Urbino, Francesco Maria (II) della Rovere, Duke of, 285

  Urbino, Francesco Maria (I) della Rovere, Duke of, 212, 222, 223–4, 233

  Uzzano, Niccolò da, 29, 43, 48, 313

  Valori, Filippo, 153, 155

  Vannino, Ottavio, 332

  Varchi, Benedetto, 250, 256, 263, 274, 329

  Vasari, Giorgio (1511–74), 328; on Donatello and Cosimo Pater Patriae, 91; on Donatello in old age, 92; on the wax effigies of Lorenzo the Magnificent, 142–3; and Lorenzo the Magnificent’s school, 165, 322; on Michelangelo, 165–6; on Verrocchio, 167; architect of the Uffizi, 271; and the Palazzo Vecchio, 274, 275, 278, 312; death of, 278; and Santa Maria Novella, 314; and II Trebbio, 315; and the Pucci, 315; on Cafaggiolo, 318; and Botticelli’s Adoration of the Magi, 320

  Vatican, Library, 69; Sistine Chapel, 167; entry of Leo X into, 218; Palace, 228; Loggie di Raffaello, 229; Stanze di Raffaello, 229, 245, 325–6; Clement VII commissions artists for, 240

  Veneziano, Domenico, 315

  Venice, Medici office in, 34, 87; slave-market in, 39, 95; Medicean exiles in, 52, 54; San Giorgio Maggiore, 54, 315; Cosimo Pater Patriae leaves, 58; Neroni and Soderini in, 106; Verrocchio’s bronze of Colleoni in, 167; printing presses in, 169; Lorenzaccio stabbed in, 265

  Venice, Republic of, government of, 27; and Cosimo Pater Patriae, 50–1, 82–3; and Fourth Crusade, 64; and Florence, 79, 82–3, 105, 106, 130, 186; conquests by, 79; Sforza a condottiere for, 81; and Lombardy, 82; declares war on Florence and Milan, 84; and France, 184; joins the Holy League, 194; League of Cambrai designed against, 207; and battle of Aguadello, 207, 208, 209

  Veronese, Paolo, prop. Paolo Cagliari (1525–88), 322

  Verrocchio, Andrea del (1435–88), 168; and the Medici tomb, 112, 321; and Giovanni di Piero’s helmet, 122; Lorenzo the Magnificent and, 167, 315; Vasari on, 167; his bronze of Colleoni, 167; Leonardo da Vinci and, 168; his fountain, 275, 316; and the Medici emblem, 313; David and Resurrection, 316, 323; memorial to Cosimo Pater Patriae, 319; his Putto in Palazzo Vecchio, 330

  Vespucci family, 325

  Vespucci, Amerigo (1451–1512), 193, 322

  Vespucci, Giorgio, 193

  Vespucci, Marco, 121

  Vespucci, Simonetta, née Cattaneo, 121, 322

  Vettori, Francesco, 224, 257, 264

  Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy, 331

  Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy, 328

  Villas,

  Ambrogiana, 288, 333

  Belcanto, 318

  Cafaggiolo, 164, 267; a place of refuge, 62, 145; Michelozzo designs, 77; Cosimo Pater Patriae and, 78; Lorenzo the Magnificent at, 122, 134, 145; Montesecco at, 134; mortgaged, 155; and the sons of Pierfrancesco, 159, 185; fortress, 318

  Careggi, Cosimo Pater Patriae at, 58, 69, 77; Piero di Cosimo at, 105; Lorenzo the Magnificent at, 114, 122, 173; annual banquet at, 164; Verrocchio’s works for, 167, 275, 316; Duke of Urbino at, 235; historical note on, 316

  Castello, 267, 274; Giovanni di Pierfrancesco at, 185; historical note on, 323; garden of, 329; Accademia della Crusca and, 330

  Cereto Guidi, 277, 330

  Demidoff, 330

  Ferdinanda, 280, 331

  Gianfigliazzi, Marignolle, 221

  II Trebbio, 77, 257, 267, 315, 318

  Lappeggi, 290, 299, 300, 304, 333

  Lecceto, 267

  Le Fontanelle, 316

  Madama, 326

  Magliana, 230, 238

  Medici (Fiesole), completed, 78; Michelozzo and, 95; Poliziano at, 122, 146; and the Pazzi plot, 134–5; Lorenzo the Magnificent and, 164; historical note on, 318

  Medici (Rome), 330

  Montelupo, 267

  Montevecchio, 68, 77

  Negroni, 277

  Petraia, 280, 331

  Poggio a Caiano, 322; Lorenzo the Magnificent and, 114, 164, 172, 314; Duke of Urbino and, 235; Cosimo I and, 267; the park at, 274; Marguerite-Louise at, 291, 295; Strozzi family and, 314; architecture and artists of, 322

  Poggio Imperiale, 282, 309, 332

  Pratolino, 276, 278, 300, 330

  Ravia, 315

  Spedaletto, 165, 166

  Violante Beatrice, Pricess of Bavaria, see Medici, Violante Beatrice de’

  Visconti family, 59, 81

  Visconti, Bianca, see Sforza, Bianca

  Visconti, Filippo Maria, Duke of Milan (1392–1447), 27; and war between Florence and Lucca, 42–3; and war with Florence, 79; personality and appearance, 79–80; his marriages, 80; and Francesco Sforza, 81

  Visconti, Valentina, 201

  Vitelleschi, Cardinal, 56, 57

  Vitelli, Alessandro, 256, 257, 263

  Vitelli, Niccolò, 129–30

  Volterra, sack of, 126

  War of the Pazzi Conspiracy, 149–50, 151, 152, 155

  Weyden, Roger van der (1400–64), 314

  Wolsey, Cardinal Thomas (c. 1475–1530), 239

  Zoffany, John, 328

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  CHRISTOPHER HIBBERT wa
s born in Leicester in 1924 and educated at Radley and Oriel College, Oxford. Described by the New Statesman as “a pearl of biographers,” he has established himself as a leading popular historian whose works reflect meticulous scholarship and has written more than twenty-five histories and biographies. Married with three children, he lives in Oxfordshire.

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  COPYRIGHT

  Originally published in Great Britain in 1974 under the title The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici.

  THE HOUSE OF MEDICI. Copyright © 1974 by Christopher Hibbert. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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  Hibbert, Christopher.

  The House of Medici.

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  First published in 1974 under title: The rise and fall of the House of Medici.

  Bibliography: p.

  1. Medici, House of. 2. Florence—History-1421-1737. 3. Florence—Biography. I. Title.

  DG737.42.H5 1980 945'.51'05 79-26508

  ISBN 0-688-00339-7

  ISBN 0-688-05339-4 (pbk.)

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