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- As the opening stroke of the Pazzi conspiracy, Giuliano was assassinated on 26 April 1478 – in the Duomo of Florence, Santa Maria del Fiore, by Francesco de' Pazzi and Bernardo Baroncelli. During Mass, at the sounding of the Elevation, he received a fatal sword wound to the head and was stabbed 19 times.
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Death. As the opening stroke of the Pazzi conspiracy, Giuliano was assassinated on 26 April 1478 – in the Duomo of Florence, Santa Maria del Fiore, by Francesco de' Pazzi and Bernardo Baroncelli. [7] During Mass, at the sounding of the Elevation, he received a fatal sword wound to the head and was stabbed 19 times.
Giuliano de’ Medici, duc de Nemours (born 1479—died March 17, 1516, Florence [Italy]) was the ruler of Florence from 1512 to 1513, after the Medici were restored to power. The republicans of Florence, with the aid of the French, had driven out Giuliano’s brother Piero di Lorenzo de’ Medici in 1494.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Pazzi Conspiracy – Who Did What, and Why?
- The First Attempt – A Poisoned Banquet
- Murder in Florence’s Cathedral
- Revenge Is Served
From the time of Cosimo the Elder (1389-1464), the grandfather of Lorenzo the Magnificent, the Medici were the unofficial rulers of Florence. The city was still a Republic, but one steered by the whims of its most influential families. As Guicciardini wrote, Lorenzo the Magnificent (1449-1492) was a kind of ‘delightful tyrant“. Not someone who was ...
Riario struck a deal with Salviati, the Pazzi and their followers, with the Pope’s full collaboration. Then the conspiracy began to take shape. Lorenzo and Giuliano needed to be murdered at the same time, so as to eliminate any chance of later revenge. So the first plan was to poison the two brothers during a banquet organised in Florence on 25th A...
It’s Easter on 26th April 1478, a beautiful Sunday morning in Florence. The cathedral is slowly filling with people, while the plotters are ready to strike. Lorenzo and Giuliano are attending Mass, and the murderers are waiting for the signal. As the host is raised heavenward, the two brothers are attacked. Lorenzo reacts swiftly against his attack...
Jacopo de’ Pazzi, who was brought back to Florence after trying to escape to the Apennines, is taken as a prisoner, and hanged from one of Palazzo Vecchio’s windows. The same fate was to befall Francesco de’ Pazzi, his cousin Renato, and Salviati. And by the end the entire Pazzi family was dealt with, the majority killed, and the rest imprisoned or...
Mar 6, 2004 · On April 26, 1478, Lorenzo de' Medici (who escaped) and his brother Giuliano (who died) were repeatedly attacked with knives by a gang of men who invaded the Duomo cathedral in...
Jun 3, 2017 · Giuliano offered to just give up the grain to the authorities in return for his release, but the officer was having none of it. Giuliano therefore drew his pistol and shot the officer dead. Afterwards, he took the mountains and hid out there for a while.
Apr 9, 2021 · According to Bartolomeo Cerretani, even some of the Medici’s supporters regarded him as ‘naturally unsuited to the task of government’. For most contemporaries, especially those who had known him in exile, he was a mere voluptuary, given more to poetry and pleasure than to politics.
Giuliano de’ Medici was killed by Francesco Pazzi, but Lorenzo was able to defend himself and escaped only slightly wounded. Meanwhile, other conspirators tried to gain control of the government.
