Bernardo Bandini Baroncelli
Bernardo Bandini Baroncelli | |
|---|---|
Medici | |
| Killed | Giuliano de' Medici |
| Injured | Lorenzo de' Medici |
| Weapons | Knife |
Bernardo Bandini Baroncelli (15 January 1420 – 29 December 1479) was a Florentine merchant and a protagonist in the Pazzi conspiracy, a plot to remove the Medici family from power in Florence.[1]
Life
Bandini dei Baroncelli was born in Florence on 15 January 1420, the son of Lagia di Gaspare Bonciani and Giovanni di Piero Bandini dei Baroncelli. His father died when he was young – certainly before 1427 – and he was brought up by his mother and his elder brother Giovanni.[1] He became a merchant. He married Giovanna di Goffredo de Biros, with whom he had a daughter, Beatrice.[1]
The Pazzi Conspiracy
He is remembered principally for his participation in the
After the failure of the plot, Baroncelli fled Italy, but was eventually found and arrested in
Baroncelli's execution was depicted in a macabre sketch drawn by Leonardo da Vinci while he was in Florence in 1479.[6] With dispassionate integrity, Leonardo had registered the colours of the robes that Baroncelli was wearing at the time of his death in neat mirror writing.
In culture
Baroncelli appears as a tenor in the opera I Medici by Ruggero Leoncavallo (1893).[7][8]
References
- ^ ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
- ^ Smedley, Edward; James, Hugh James; Rose, Henry John (1845). Encyclopaedia Metropolitana; Or, Universal Dictionary of Knowledge on an Original Plan Comprising the Twofold Advantage of a Philosophical and an Alphabetical Arrangement, with Appropriate Engravings. B. Fellowes. p. 272.
- ISBN 978-0791086261.
- ISBN 0691010781.
- ^ Morelli, Giovanni di Jacopo; Morelli, Lionardo di Lorenzo; di San Luigi, Idelfonso (1785). Croniche. Firenze: Gaetano Cambiagi. p. 195.
- ^ Popham, A. E. (1946). The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. p. 184.
- ^ Casaglia, Gherardo (2005). "I Medici, 9 November 1893". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).
- ^ Farr, Robert J. (August 2010). "Review – Leoncavallo – I Medici". MusicWeb International. Retrieved 30 August 2010.
External links
Media related to Bernardo Bandini Baroncelli at Wikimedia Commons
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