The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici (63 page)
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Authors: Christopher Hibbert
Fiamingo, Niccolò,
274
Ficino, Marsilio (1433–99), Cosimo
Paler Patriot
and,
68–9
,
77
; and Lorenzo the Magnificent,
103
,
113
,
122
,
165
; Poliziano and,
122
; his villa,
316
Filarete, Antonio Averlino,
107
Florence, in 15th century,
19–21
; government of,
25
,
26–7
,
28
,
32
; banner of,
26
; territorial expansion,
32
; trade,
33
; the florin,
33
; Martin V in,
36
; Cosimo
Pater Patriot
returns to,
58
; taxation in,
61–2
; and the Council of Florence,
65–6
,
68
; entry of
Eastern Emperor into,
66
; Medici generosity for adornment of,
69
; Cosimo
Paler Potrioe
on,
73
; Cosimo
Pater Patriot
and foreign policy of,
79
,
82–4
; and Milan,
79–80
,
83
,
84
,
105
,
130
; war declared on,
84
,
148
; Party of the Hill and Party of the Plain,
104
,
105
; return of the Medici,
105–6
,
212
,
214
,
249
,
251
; and Venice,
106
,
130
; pageants and festivities in,
111
,
118–19
,
217–18
; Florentine wedding customs,
117–18
; lions of,
119
,
173
,
327
; Milanese state visit to,
124
; and die Papacy,
129
,
130
,
159–60
; rioting in,
140
; War of the Pazzi Conspiracy,
149–50
,
151
,
152
,
155
; and Naples,
155
; Cennini’s printing press in,
169
; Savonarola and,
179
,
180
,
181
,
182
,
191
,
193
,
197
; attitude to French invasion of Italy,
184
; Charles VIII enters,
189–90
; Cinozzi on,
193
; and France,
208
; in decline,
210
,
306–7
; national militia of,
211
,
213
,
214
; reception for Leo X,
220–2
; flood and famine in,
223
; Cardinal Giulio’s administration,
236
; problem of government of,
237
; resentment against Passerini and Clement VII in,
248–9
; organization of defence of,
249
; siege of,
250
; surrenders to the Pope and the Emperor,
250–1
; resentment against Alessandro de’ Medici,
254
; Florentine navy,
266–7
; under Ferdinand 1,
279
Baptistery, the,
see
San Giovanni Battista, church of
Bargello, the,
Podestà
at,
27
; Albizzi intends to seize,
56
; executions in,
142
,
277
; Botticelli’s paintings of the Pazzi conspirators in,
142
; Donatello’s works in,
312
,
318
,
327
; historical note on,
313
; Verrocchio’s works in,
316
,
323
; Pollaiuolo’s work in,
320
; Giambo-logna’s bronzes in,
323
,
329
; bust of Cosimo I in,
327
Borgo degli Albizzi,
321
Borgo Sant’ Apostoli,
315
Casa Buonarroti,
322
Casa Guidi,
321
Corso, the,
120
Corso dei Tintori,
332
Duomo, the,
see
Santa Maria del Fiore, Cathedral of
Fortezza di San Giorgio,
330
Giardino dei Semplici,
315
Lungami,
282
Lungarno Acciaiuoli,
314
Lungarno Guicciardini,
325
Orti Oricellari,
313
Palazzi,
see separate entries
Piazza dei Pitti,
273
Piazza della Repubblica,
312
Piazza della Signoria,
Parlamcnto
and,
27
,
50
,
57
,
62
,
191
,
251
;
Signoria
troops in,
56
; circuses in,
119
; and festival of St John the Baptist,
120
; fighting in,
139
; conspirators’ corpses hang in,
140
; ordeal by fire in,
199
; Savonarola burned in,
200
; national militia parade in,
211
; Soderini speaks in,
212–13
; Medici supporters in,
214
,
215–16
; Leo X in,
221
; rioting in,
248
; Michelangelo’s
David
in,
249
; executions in,
264
; statues in the Loggia dei Lanzi,
274
,
279
,
280
;
Festa degli Omaggi
, 289; the city’s lions in,
327
; Ammanati’s Neptune Fountain in,
327
; statue of Cosimo I in,
331
Piazza Piave,
327
Piazza Peruzzi,
315
Piazza San Marco,
322
Piazza Sant’ Apollinare,
56
Piazza Santa Croce,
312
; tournaments in,
38
,
116
,
121
,
314
; mock battles in,
119
; joust in,
300
Piazza Santo Spirito,
315
Porta alla Croce,
120
Porta di San Pier Gattolini,
36
Porta San Freliano,
189
Prato, the,
121
Rotonda di Santa Maria Angeli,
314
San Bartolommeo, church of,
73
San Gaetano, church of,
324
San Gaggio, convent of,
36–7
San Giovanni Battista, church of (the Baptistery),
31
,
321
; tomb and monument of John XXIII in,
36
,
75
; bronze doors of,
70–1
,
110
,
316
; Dante on,
70
; votive offering taken to,
120
; historical note on,
316
San Lorenzo, Brunelleschi’s works in,
70
,
75
,
326
; Giovanni di Bicci and,
71
,
98
,
319
; Medici chapel,
71
,
326
; Donatello’s work for,
90
; Cosimo
Paler Palriae’s
monument in,
98
,
319
;
Donatello buried in,
108
; the Medici tombs in,
112
,
144
,
174
,
274
,
293
,
309
,
321
,
329
; Savonarola preaches at,
179
; Michelangelo and,
229
,
240
,
325
; Capella dei Principi,
274
,
293
,
309
,
313
,
324
,
329
; Duke Ferdinand I inaugurates a ceremony at,
279
; Medici emblems in,
313
; Martelli chapel,
316
; the Medici Library in,
316
; historical note on,
317
San Marco, convent of, Cosimo
Paler Patriot
and,
69
,
74
; Lorenzo the Magnifi-cent’s body at,
174
; Savonarola at,
179
,
180
,
181
; treasures from Medici Library lodged at,
187
,
316
; refuge sought in,
199
; Cosimo I and the Dominicans of,
265
; historical note on,
317
; Fra Angelico’s
Crucifixion
and
Annunciation
in,
319
San Martino, church of,
331
Sant’ Ambrogio, church of,
93
Sant’ Antonio, convent of,
123
Santa Croce, church and convent of,
131
;
horse
kept at,
26
; meetings of Council of Florence in,
66
; Cosimo
Pater Patriot
and,
73
; Jacopo de’ Pazzi buried in,
141
; Galileo buried in,
282
,
317
,
332
; historical note on,
312–13
; Bardi chapel,
314
; Donatello’s
Annunciation
in,
315
; Peruzzi chapel,
315
; novices’ chapel,
317
Santa Felicità, church of,
316
Santa Maria del Fiore, Cathedral of (the Duomo),
32
;
Arte della Lana
and,
33
; and Council of Florence,
67
; Ghiberti’s windows for,
70
; Brunelleschi’s dome,
72
,
317
; Donatello and,
90
,
320
; Delia Robbia’s singing gallery,
108
,
320
; Matins of Darkness,
120
; Holy Saturday in,
120
; and the Pazzi conspiracy,
135–6
,
137–8
; facade of,
168
,
221
,
324
; lightning strikes,
173
; Savonarola preaches in,
178
,
180
,
185
,
196
,
197
;
Compagnacci
in,
197
; congregation attacked in,
199
; Leo X in,
222
; Cosimo I in,
270
; proxy marriage of Maria de’ Medici in,
281
; ceremony for Ferdinand III and Marguerite Louise in,
288
; historical note on,
313
; cenotaphs in,
320
;
Scoppio del Carro
, 321–2