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.
Thanks to the confession of the soldier Giovanni Battista di Montesecco, it is possible to trace the dynamics and diplomatic conflicts that acted as a precursor to the tragedy of April 26, 1478. The Medici family was often the center of political disputes and violent battles over contested territories between the Florentine Republic and the Holy See. The bloody Pope Sixtus IV had unfinished business with Lorenzo the Magnificent and for this very reason decided to eliminate him once and for all.
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.
