Pazzi conspiracy
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Key facts
- Native name
- Congiura dei Pazzi
- Date
- 26 April 1478, Easter Sunday
- Location
- Duomo of Florence
- Also known as
- Pazzi plot
- Type
- Assassination attempt
- Organised by
- Pope Sixtus IV Girolamo Riario Francesco Salviati Francesco de' Pazzi
- Participants
- Bernardo Bandini dei Baroncelli Jacopo de' Pazzi Antonio Maffei da Volterra Stefano da Bagnone
- Deaths
- Giuliano de' Medici Francesco Nori
- Non fatal injuries
- Lorenzo de' Medici , wounded
- Convictions
- about 80
- Sentence
- execution
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- conspiracy
- Named after
- Pazzi family
- Country
- Republic of Florence
- Creator
- House of Salviati
- Location
- Florence
- Image
- Bertoldo di giovanni, medaglia della congiura dei pazzi (lorenzo), 1478.JPG
- Participant
- Federico da Montefeltro
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- point in time
- 1478-04-26
- Commons category
- Pazzi conspiracy
- target
- Giuliano de' Medici
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Encyclopedic overview
The Pazzi conspiracy (Italian: Congiura dei Pazzi) was a failed plot by members of the Pazzi family and others to displace the Medici family as rulers of Renaissance Florence.
On 26 April 1478, Easter Sunday, there was an attempt to assassinate Lorenzo de' Medici and his brother Giuliano. Lorenzo was wounded but survived; Giuliano was killed.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pazzi conspiracy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.