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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451519403321

Autore

Martines Lauro

Titolo

April blood [[electronic resource] ] : Florence and the plot against the Medici / / Lauro Martines

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003

ISBN

1-280-83772-1

0-19-534843-5

1-4294-3878-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Disciplina

945/.5105

Soggetti

Statesmen - Italy - Florence

Nobility - Italy - Florence

Electronic books.

Florence (Italy) History 1421-1737

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 282-292) and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; GENEALOGIES; PERSONAGGl; Prologue; 1 Conspiracy; 2 Social Climbers; 3 Profile: Manetti; 4 The Pazzi Family; 5 Profile: Soderini; 6 Enter Lorenzo; 7 April Blood; 8 Assaulting the Body: 'Cannibalism'; 9 A Soldier Confesses; 10 Raging: Pope and Citizen; 11 The Pazzi Cursed; 12 Profile: Rinuccini; 13 Lorenzo: Lord and Citizen; 14 The Bottom Line; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

One of the world's leading historians of Renaissance Italy brings to life here the vibrant--and violent--society of fifteenth-century Florence. His disturbing narrative opens up an entire culture, revealing the dark side of Renaissance man and politician Lorenzo de' Medici. On a Sunday in April 1478, assassins attacked Lorenzo and his brother as they attended Mass in the cathedral of Florence. Lorenzo scrambled to safety as Giuliano bled to death on the cathedral floor. April Blood moves outward in time and space from that murderous event, unfolding a story of tangled passions, ambition, treac