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Ridolfi, Piero,
220
,
221

Rinuccini, Alamanno,
122
,
157

Riots,
Ciompi
,
25–6
,
31
; in Volterra,
125–7
; after the Pazzi Conspiracy,
140
; after cancellation of ordeal by fire,
199

Robbia, Andrea della (1435–1525),
317

Robbia, Luca della (
c
. 1400–82),
108
,
138
,
320
,
321

Robert, King of Naples,
39

Roman Catholic Church, and Council of Florence,
64
; and Greek Orthodox Church,
65
,
67

Rome, Medici offices in,
34
,
35
,
36
,
87
,
114
,
158
; Cosimo
Pater Palriae
in,
39–40
; Eugenius IV driven from,
56
; artists in,
70
,
72
,
90
,
167
; Lorenzo the Magnificent in,
103
,
125
: Lorenzo the Magnificent’s proxy wedding in,
116
; anti-Medici conspirators in,
131
; and the Pazzi Conspiracy failure,
148
; printing presses in,
169
; falls to Charles VIII,
193
; Lorenzo the Magnificent on,
204
; crime and corruption in,
205
; Giovanni di Lorenzo in,
205
,
206
; conclave in,
216–17
; celebrations for the election of Leo X,
218
; under Leo X,
228
; Charles V’s forces advance on,
241–3
; sack of,
244–5

Belvedere,
226

Castel Sam’ Angelo,
241
; executions at,
205
,
234
; Clement VII takes refuge in,
241
,
244
; fugitives in,
244–5
; the attack on,
246–7
; Queen Christina at,
330

Monte Testaccio,
227

Piazza del Popolo,
228

Santa Maria in Dominica, church of,
228

St Peter’s Basilica, Florentine deputation in,
160
; under reconstruction,
216
,
228
; corpse of Clement VII desecrated in,
253
; threatened destruction by fire,
326

St John in Lateran, church of,
88
,
305
,
327

Via Ripetta,
228

Romualdo, St,
321

Rondinelli, Fra Giuliano,
198

Rosa, Salvator (1615–73),
286

Rossellino, Bernardo,
313

Rossi, Leopetto,
102

Rossi, Luigi,
235

Rossi, Maria,
née
Medici, Maria di Piero de’,
102

Rossi, Roberto de’,
37

Rosso, Giovanni,
274

Rovere, Francesco della,
see
Pope Sixtus IV

Roverc, Francesco Maria della,
see
Urbino, Francesco Maria I and II, Dukes of

Rovere, Giovanni della,
129

Rovere, Giuliano della, Cardinal,
later
Pope Julius II,
q.v
.,
161

Rovere, Leonardo della,
130

Rovere, Vittoria della,
see
Medici, Vittoria de’

Rubens, Peter Paul (1577–1640),
332

Rucellai family,
314

Rucellai, Bcrnardo(1449–1514),
102

Rucellai, Giovanni,
29
,
227
,
313

Rucellai, Lucrezia,
née
Lucrezia di Piero de’ Medici,
102

Rucellai, Palla,
257

Ruggieri, Giuseppe,
319
,
328

Ruspanli
,
308

St Stephen, Prato, church of,
93

Salutati, Antonio di Messer Francesco,
87

Salviati, Averardo,
141

Salviati, Francesco, Archbishop of Pisa, waits in Rome,
130
; and the Pazzi Conspiracy,
131
,
132
,
133
,
136
,
137
,
138–9
; executed,
140

Salviati, Giacomo,
261

Salviati, Giovanni, Cardinal,
235

Salviati, Jacopo,
220
,
247
,
262

Salviati, Lucrezia,
neé
Medici, Lucrezia di Lorenzo de’,
115

Salviati, Maria,
see
Medici, Maria de’

San Domenico Fiesole, convent of,
73
,
94
,
317

San Leo, fortess of,
236

Sanseverino, Federigo, Cardinal,
209
,
231

Sansovino, Jacopo,
prop
. Jacopo Tatti (1486–1570),
220
,
221
,
325

Santa Croce, Antonio,
246

Santo Spirito, Jerusalem, church of,
74

Sarto, Andrea del,
prop
. Andrea Vannucchi (1486-1531),
172
,
220
,
221
,
300
,
322

Sassetri, Francesco,
158
,
323

Sauli, Cardinal,
233
,
234

Savonarola, Girolamo (1452-98),
178
-82,
216
; his effect on Florentine morale,
185
; and Charles VIII,
188
; his power in Florence,
191
; differing attitudes to,
192
-3; and the Holy League,
196
; and Alexander VI,
196
-7; and the proposed ordeal by fire,
198
,
199
; tortured, hanged and burned,
200
; Machiavelli’s contempt for,
210
; his cell at San Marco,
317

Scarlatti, Alessandro (1659-1725),
300

Schinner, Matthew, Cardinal,
220

Scoroncolo,
assassin of
Alessandro de’ Medici,
256

Sforza, Ascanio, Cardinal,
203
,
205

Sforza, Bianca,
née
Visconti,
80
,
81

Sforza, Caterina,
128

Sforza, Francesco, Duke of Milan (1401-66), and war between Florence and Lucca,
42
; his birth,
80
; personality and appearance,
81
; Pius Il on,
81
; marriage,
81
; and Cosimo
Pater Palriae
,
82
; Duke of Milan,
82
,
85
; and Florence’s foreign policy,
83
; and France,
84
; and the Medici bank in Milan,
87
,
158
; death of,
105

Sforza, Francesco Maria, Duke of Milan
(d
. 1535),
240

Sforza, Galeazzo Maria, Duke of Milan (1444-76), his instability,
105
; his cruelty and extravagance,
123
-4; and Lorenzo the Magnificent,
124
; his daughter’s marriage,
128
; assassinated,
130

Sforza, Giacomo Attendolo (1369-1424),
80
-1

Sforza, Gian Galeazzo, Duke of Milan (1469-94).
130
,
151
,
181
,
183
,
184

Sforza, Ippolita,
see
Calabria, Duchess of

Sforza, Isabella, Duchess of Milan,
183
,
184

Sforza, Lodovico, Duke of Milan,
called
il Moro (1451-1508), appearance,
151
; character,
151
-2; in power,
152
; Lorenzo the Magnificent and,
168
,
173
; and Charles VIII,
183
,
184
; proclaims himself Duke,
184
; joins the Holy League,
194

Sieges, Lucca (1429-30),
42
-3; Rome (1527),
244
-6; Florence (1529-30),
249
-51; Volterra (1472),
126

Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368–1437),
34

Silvester, Guido,
231

Silvestri, Bartolommeo,
332

Silvestro, Fra,
200

Slaves,
23
-4,
33
,
39
-40,
95
,
266

Soderini, Francesco, Cardinal,
217
,
232
,
231
,
234
,
238

Soderini, Niccolò,
104
-5,
106
,
123

Soderini, Paolo Antonio,
155

Soderini, Piero,
210
-11,
212
-13,
214
,
215

Soderini, Tommaso,
110
,
123
,
152

Spain, and Julius II’s Holy League,
208
; and battle of Ravenna,
208
; Spanish forces advance on Florence,
211
-12; and sack Prato,
213
; Leo X and,
219

Spini, Bartolommeo,
49

Spini, House of,
35
,
37

Squarcialupi, Antonio,
165
,
172

Stefano da Bagnone, Fra,
136
,
137
-8,
141

Stendhal,
pseud
. of Marie Henri Beyle,
325

Strozzi family,
314

Strozzi, Clarice,
neé
Medici, Clarice di Piero de’,
202
,
248

Strozzi, Filippo the Elder (1428-91),
137
,
168
,
323
-4

Strozzi, Filippo the Younger (1489-1538),
262
,
323

Strozzi, Laodamia,
179

Strozzi, Lorenzo di Palla,
38

Strozzi, Marietta di Lorenzo,
118
-19

Strozzi, Matteo,
58

Strozzi, Palla (1372-1462),
38
, and the Albizzi,
52
; and Rinaldo degli Albizzi,
55
,
56
-7; banished,
59
; Parentucelli and,
87
; commissions Gentile da Fabriano,
314

Strozzi, Piero,
263
-4

Stufa, Sigismondo della,
138

Sumptuary laws,
22
,
24

Sustermans, Justus,
283

Switzerland, Swiss army in Lombardy,
209
; Leo X and,
220

Tacca, Ferdinando,
286
,
332

Tacca, Pietro,
328
,
331

Tadda, Romolo del,
328
,
332

Talenti, Simone,
329

Tasso, Giovanni Battitta,
313

Tinucci, Niccolò,
51

Titian,
prop
. Tiziano Vercelli (
d
. 1576),
328
,
332

Tornabuoni family,
43
,
102

Tornabuoni, Francesco,
114

Tornabuoni, Giovanni,
103
,
106
,
114
,
178
,
319

Tornabuoni, Lucrezia,
see
Medici, Lucrezia de’

Trade, in 15th century Florence,
20
; guilds,
25
-6; merchants and,
28
-9; wool,
33
,
34
,
152
; silk,
42
; in decline,
293

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