Francesco de' Pazzi

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Francesco de' Pazzi
Banker

Francesco de' Pazzi (28 January 1444 – 26 April 1478) was a Florentine banker, a member of the Pazzi noble family, and one of the instigators of the Pazzi conspiracy, a plot to displace the Medici family as rulers of the Florentine Republic. His uncle, Jacopo de' Pazzi, was one of the main organizers of the conspiracy.[1]

On 26 April 1478,

Bernardo Baroncelli, who inflicted a fatal sword wound to the head before stabbing him 19 times; however, Lorenzo survived the attack, having been merely wounded by the other conspirators.[2][3] Francesco then returned to his uncle's villa, where the latter found him with a wound in one leg, reportedly self-inflicted during the attack.[4]

Shortly after the failure of the Pazzi conspiracy, most of the people involved were hunted down and killed. Francesco was taken from his bed and dragged through the streets of Florence by an angry mob before ultimately being hanged from the

Palazzo della Signoria, next to the decomposing body of fellow conspirator Francesco Salviati. His uncle Jacopo would soon meet the same fate.[5]

In popular culture

Francesco de' Pazzi was sung by bass Ludovico Contini in the first performance of Leoncavallo's 1893 opera I Medici.[6][7]

Francesco appears as an antagonist in the video game

Templar Order, who are depicted as the orchestrators of the Pazzi conspiracy.[9] Both characters are killed by the protagonist Ezio Auditore
, who saved Lorenzo de' Medici during the assassination attempt.

Elliot Levey portrayed Francesco de' Pazzi in TV series Da Vinci's Demons.[10]

Francesco is referenced in the film Hannibal, when Hannibal Lecter meets a modern-day descendant of the Pazzi family, Chief Inspector Rinaldo Pazzi. Rinaldo tries to capture Lecter to collect a large reward; however, he meets a similar fate to his ancestors when Lecter disembowels and hangs him from a balcony.

Francesco appears in the second season of

Medici: Masters of Florence, played by Matteo Martari.[11]

References

  1. OCLC 25171924
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  2. ^ 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.
  3. ISBN 978-0791086261
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  4. ^ Kohl, Witt & Welles 1978, p. 315.
  5. ISBN 0140050906
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  6. ^ Casaglia, Gherardo (2005). "I Medici, 9 November 1893". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).
  7. ^ Farr, Robert J. (August 2010). "Review – Leoncavallo – I Medici". MusicWeb International. Retrieved 30 August 2010.
  8. Hobby Consolas
     (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  9. ^ Makedonski, Brett (14 November 2016). "The Ezio Collection represents some of the best and the worst for Assassin's Creed". Destructoid. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  10. ^ Hale, Mike (11 April 2013). "The He-Man Who Gave Mona Lisa That Smile". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  11. ^ Spencer, Samuel (26 January 2019). "Medici family tree: How are the new characters related to season 1?". Daily Express. Retrieved 26 February 2019.

Works cited

External links
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