The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici (61 page)
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Authors: Christopher Hibbert
Ammanati, Bartolomeo (1511–92) and the Pitti Palace,
271
,
328
; Cosimo I and,
274
; and the Villa Pratolino,
276
; and San Giovannino degli Scolopi,
317
; and the Villa of Castello,
323
,
329
; and the Neptune Fountain,
327
; and the Pontc alia Carraia,
329
Ammianus Marcellinus,
45
Ammirato, Scipio,
163
Angelico, Fra,
real name
Guido di Pietri,
monastic name
Giovanni da Fiesole (1387–1455), his history,
94
; his nature,
94
; Gozzoli and,
110
; his
Crucifixion
,
319
; his
Annunciation
,
319
Anna Maria, Electress Palatine,
neé
Anna Maria Luisa di Cosimo de’ Medici, (1667–1743),
291
; her marriage,
304
; widowed,
304
; and the Tuscan succession,
305
; the last of the Medici,
309
; death of,
310
; her bequest,
310–11
Anna Maria Francesca of Saxe-Lauenberg,
see
Medici, Anna Maria Francesca, de’
Anne, Duchess of Brittany,
and later
Queen of France,
183
Antelminelli, Castrucrio Castracani degli,
320
Anttnori, Bernardino,
277
Antonio da Sangalio,
325
Apicius, Marcus Gabius,
45
Ariosto, Ludovico(1474–1533),
227
Aristotle,
68
Arno, river, water displays on,
119
,
282
; Pazzi’s corpse in,
141
; Savonarola’s remains thrown into,
200
; in flood,
223
,
279–80
; Buonnacorsi’s corpse in,
270-1
; Acciaiuoli palace on,
315
Avogrado, Giovanni,
317
Baglioni, Cesare,
330
Baglioni, Gian-Paolo,
207
Baldese, Ambrogiodi,
331
Baldovinetti, Mariotto,
52
Bande Nere, Giovanni delle,
see
Medici, Giovanni di Giovanni de’
Bank, Medici, branches of,
34
; and the Papacy,
35
,
36
,
37
,
88
,
89
,
129
; Cosimo
Pater Patriot
and,
49
,
59–60
; and the, Florentine government,
55
; Sforza and,
82
; and alliance with Milan,
83
; under Cosimo
Pater Patriot
,
86–8
; and Sixtus IV,
128–9
,
148
; and Cittá di Castello,
129
; declining fortunes of,
158
Banquets, at the wedding of Lorenzo the Magnificent,
117–18
; given by Giovanni
di Lorenzo as cardinal and Pope,
206
,
225–6
; given by the cardinals under Leo X and by Agostino Chigi,
224–5
; Leo X’s,
225
; for wedding of Maria de’ Medici,
281
; in the Palazzo Vecchio,
289
; of Cosimo III,
297
Baraballo, Fra,
226–7
Barbadori family,
316
Bardi family, bankers,
39
; and the Medici,
43
,
87
; their chapel in Santa Croce,
313
; and the Via de’ Bardi,
314
; and the Villa Medici,
318
Bardi, Bartolomeo de’,
36
Bardi, Contessina de’,
see
Medici, Contessina de’
Bardi, Giovanni de’,
38
Bardi, Niccolò di Betto,
90
Bartolommeo, Fra,
prop
. Baccio della Porta (1475–1517),
192
,
301
Battles,
Barga (1437),
80
Fomovo (1495),
195
Imola (1434),
55
Imola (1467),
107
Marignano(1515),
220
Montemurlo(1537),
263
Pa via (1525),
240
Beccadelli, Antonio,
Henttaphroditus
,
91
Benavieni, Antonio,
107
Bentivogiio, Giovanni, and Lorenzo the Magnificent,
103
,
149–50
; warns Piero di Cosimo,
105
; and capture and recapture of Bologna,
207
,
208
Berlinghieri, Jacopo,
49
Bernardino of Siena, St (1380–1444),
23
Bessarion, Johannes, Archbishop of Nicaea (c.1395–1472),
67
,
68
Bicci, Neri di,
320
Bisricci, Vespasiano da,
165
; and Cosimo
Pater Patrice
,
39
,
73
,
74
; on Cosimo
Paler Patriae
,
60
,
97–8
; and Council of Florence,
66
; his tomb,
313
Boboli Gardens, origin of the name,
271
; Cosimo I and,
274
; Ferdinando I and,
280
;
Il Mondo Festeggianle
in,
289
,
328
;
Ruspanti
in,
308
; historical note on,
328
;
Perseus and the Dragon
,
330
Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313–75),
278
Bogoli family,
271
Bologna, excommunication of,
45
; rumours of plots in,
65
; Medici office in,
87
; Bishop of,
87
; Savonarola a novice in,
179
; taken and retaken,
207
,
208
; Cardinal Giovanni di Lorenzo in,
209
; French forces withdraw from,
209
; Leo X and Francis I in,
222
Borgia, Roderigo, Cardinal,
later
Alexander VI, Pope,
q.v
.
203
,
205
Borromeo, Giovanni,
132
Botticelli, Sandro,
prop
. Alessandro Filipepi (1444–1510),
165
,
168
; his works,
109–10
,
166
,
167
,
315
,
320
,
322
,
323
,
331
; designs Giuliano di Piero’s standard,
122
; and the Pazzi conspirators,
142
; and Lorenzo the Magnificent,
167
; cost of his work,
169
; and Savonarola,
181
; his pictures burned,
192
; and the tragedy of Florence,
325
; and Michelangelo’s
David
,
326
Bravo, Cecco,
332
Bronzino, Agnolo (1502–72),
274
Brosses, Charles de,
310
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett,
321
Bninelleschi, Filippo (1377–1446), and bronze doors for the Baptistery,
70
; Giovanni di Bicci commissions,
71
; and basilica of San Lorenzo,
71–2
,
317
; and the Cathedral dome,
72
,
313
; Cosimo
Pater Patriae
and,
75
; Donatello and,
90
; and the Pazzi chapel,
131
; and the Rotonda di Santa Maria Angeli,
314
; and the Ospedale degli Innocenti,
316
; and Santo Spirito,
323
Bueri, Piccarda,
see
Medici, Piccarda de’
Buggiano, (Andrea Cavalcanti),
319
Buonnaccorsi, Giuliano,
270–1
Buontalenti, Bernardo, and the Boboli Gardens,
271
; and the Villa Pratolino,
276
,
330
; and the Uffizi palace,
278
,
328
; and Forte di Belvedere,
280
; and
Il Rapimento di Cefalo
,
281
; and the Cathedral façade,
324
; and Santa Trinitá,
328
; garden of the Villa of Castello,
323
,
329
; and Cereto Guidi,
330
Burchiello,
the barber
,
95
Burnet, Gilbert, Bishop of Salisbury,
306
Buti, Lucrezia,
93
Byron, George Gordon, Baron Byron,
325
Calabria, Alfonso, Duke of,
later
Alfonso II, King of Naples,
q.v
., and Florence,
148–9
,
150
,
155
; and Duke of Ferrara,
151
; progress of his forces,
152
; in Siena,
159
; and the Turkish invasion,
159
; Maiano and,
167
Cambio, Arnolfo di (1232–1301),
313
Campana, Francesco,
263
Capello, Bianca,
set
Medici, Bianca de’
Capponi family,
316
Capponi, Francesco,
251
Capponi, Piero de Gino,
190–1
Carafa, Diomede,
153–4
Carbonc, Lodovico,
96
Cardi, Lodovico,
called
Cigoli (1559–1613),
324
Carnivals,
see
Festivals
Castagno, Andrea del,
320
Catherine de’ Medici, Queen of France,
see
Medici Caterina di Lorenzo de’
(1519–89)