coat-of-arms were permanently suppressed by order of the Signoria
.
History
The traditional story is that the family was founded by Pazzo di Ranieri, first man over the walls during the
Santi Apostoli and used on Holy Saturday to re-kindle fire in the city.[1][2]: 131 The historical basis of this legend has been in question since the work of Luigi Passerini Orsini de' Rilli [it] in the mid-nineteenth century.[1]
The first apparently historical figure in the family is the
Francesco de' Pazzi was one of the instigators of the Pazzi conspiracy in 1477–78. He, Jacopo de' Pazzi and Jacopo's brother Renato de' Pazzi were executed after the plot failed.[2]: 141
Palazzo della Signoria.[2]: 138 Most of the conspirators were soon caught and summarily executed; five, including Francesco de' Pazzi, were hanged from the windows of the Palazzo della Signoria.[2]: 140 Jacopo de' Pazzi, head of the family, escaped from Florence but was caught and brought back. He was tortured, then hanged from the Palazzo della Signoria next to the decomposing corpse of Salviati. He was buried at Santa Croce, but the body was dug up and thrown into a ditch. It was then dragged through the streets and propped up at the door of Palazzo Pazzi, where the rotting head was mockingly used as a door-knocker. From there it was thrown into the Arno; children fished it out and hung it from a willow tree, flogged it, and then threw it back into the river.[2]
: 141
The Pazzi were banished from Florence, and their lands and property confiscated. Guglielmo de' Pazzi, husband of Lorenzo's sister Bianca, was placed under house arrest,
coat-of-arms were perpetually suppressed by decree of the Signoria. The name was erased from public registers, and all buildings and streets carrying it were renamed. Their shield with its dolphins was obliterated.[2]: 142 Anyone named Pazzi had to take a new name;[9]: 256 any man married to a Pazzi was barred from public office.[2]: 142 Customs and traditions of the family were suppressed, among them the Easter Saturday ritual involving the flint from Jerusalem.[2]
: 142
After the overthrow of
Piero de' Medici in 1494, members of the Pazzi family were able to return to Florence.[5]
Buildings
Interior of the Pazzi Chapel
The
patron in 1445 and the architect in 1446; work was interrupted by the Pazzi plot and the chapel was never completed.[11]: 107 [4]
Palazzo Pazzi, showing the yellow-ochre pietra forte [it] sandstone and stuccoed architecture.
Palazzo Pazzi or Palazzo Pazzi-Quaratesi was the main seat of the family in the "Canto dei Pazzi", at the intersection of Borgo degli Albizi [it] and via del Proconsolo [it]. It was commissioned by Jacopo de' Pazzi, and built circa 1462–1472 to designs by Giuliano da Maiano. Above its traditionally rusticated ground floor of yellow-ochre sandstone, it had a then-novel stuccoed first and second floor, with delicate designs in the windows influenced by Brunelleschi. The central court is surrounded on three sides by round-headed arcading, with circular bosses in the spandrels.[citation needed
^ abcClaudia Tripodi (2015). Pazzi, Guglielmo de' (in Italian). Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, volume 82. Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Retrieved October 2015.
^ abcMaria Elisa Soldani (2015). Pazzi, Andrea di Guglielmo de' (in Italian). Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, volume 82. Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Retrieved October 2015.
^ abcVanna Arrighi (2015). Pazzi, Cosimo de' (in Italian). Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, volume 82. Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Retrieved April 2018.
^Pazzi, Raffaele de' (in Italian). Encliclopedie on line. Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Retrieved April 2018.
