Pazzi family

15th-century plot to displace the Medici family in Italy

chapel at Santa Croce, Florence

Italian Carmelite mystic and saint (1566-1607)

The Pazzi were a powerful family in the Republic of Florence. Their main trade during the fifteenth century was banking. In the aftermath of the Pazzi conspiracy in 1478, members of the family were banished from Florence and their property was confiscated; the family name and coat-of-arms were permanently suppressed by order of the Signoria.

Italian private banker

sculpture by Donatello

building in Florence, Italy

florentine banker and head of Pazzi family (1423–1478)

Italian politician (1437-1516)