1478. On April 26, in the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, the most dramatic episode of the Renaissance was staged: Bernardo Bandini, Francesco Pazzi and Antonio Maffei attacked Giuliano and Lorenzo de' Medici. The first dies, the second is injured. However, the crowd takes the side of the Magnificent and the conspiracy will end in a bloodbath and will result in a bitter conflict between the Italian states. The story is told by Giovanni da Montesecco, the man of the "great refusal": charged with murdering the brothers, he shirks the task a few hours before the massacre. His confession takes us directly into the heart of that era and sheds light on the thorniest issues of the Pazzi Conspiracy.
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1478. On April 26, in the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, the most dramatic episode of the Renaissance was staged: Bernardo Bandini, Francesco Pazzi and Antonio Maffei attacked Giuliano and Lorenzo de' Medici. The first dies, the second is injured. However, the crowd takes the side of the Magnificent and the conspiracy will end in a bloodbath and will result in a bitter conflict between the Italian states. The story is told by Giovanni da Montesecco, the man of the "great refusal": charged with murdering the brothers, he shirks the task a few hours before the massacre. His confession takes us directly into the heart of that era and sheds light on the thorniest issues of the Pazzi Conspiracy.
Who is the man who caused the failure of the conspiracy hatched by the Church and the Pazzi family against Lorenzo and Giuliano de' Medici? Giovanni Battista da Montesecco, this is his name: a soldier of the papal army, hired as the Magnifico's killer.Assigned the task of telling us about Florence's darkest years, Montesecco now recounts the struggles and promises that led him to be a key player within the political games of the Italian Renaissance.
The Pazzi Conspiracy
1478. On April 26, in the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, the most dramatic episode of the Renaissance was staged: Bernardo Bandini, Francesco Pazzi and Antonio Maffei attacked Giuliano and Lorenzo de' Medici. The first dies, the second is injured. However, the crowd takes the side of the Magnificent and the conspiracy will end in a bloodbath and will result in a bitter conflict between the Italian states. The story is told by Giovanni da Montesecco, the man of the "great refusal": charged with murdering the brothers, he shirks the task a few hours before the massacre. His confession takes us directly into the heart of that era and sheds light on the thorniest issues of the Pazzi Conspiracy.
