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Tranchedini da Pontremoli, Nicodemo,
83
,
97

Traversari, Ambrogio,
44
,
47
,
51
,
66
,
67

Treaties,

Barcelona (1529),
249

Lodi (1454),
85

Montil-les-Tours (1432),
84

Tribolo, Niccolò Pericoli,
271
,
274
,
323
,
329

Trissino, Gian-Giorgio,
227

Turkey, and Constantinople,
64
,
68
,
85
; Venice and,
79
,
83
; Florence and,
83
; and Italy,
84
,
159
,
160
; and Smyrna alum mines,
88
; Savonarola’s prediction about,
182
; battle of Lepanto,
266

Uccello, Paolo,
prop
. Paolo di Dono,
108
,
320

Università degli Studi
,
315

University of Florence,
45
,
46
,
47
-8,
170
,
274

University of Padua,
282

University of Pisa,
274
,
282
,
297

University of Rome,
228

Urbino, Battista da Montefeltro, Duchess of,
neé
Sforza,
332

Urbino, Catenna, Duchess of,
see
Medici, Caterina di Lorenzo de’

Urbino, Duchess of,
née
Madeleine de la Tour d’Auvergne,
235

Urbino, Duchy of,
219
,
222
,
224
,
285

Urbino, Duke of,
see
Medici, Lorenzo di Piero de’

Urbino, Federigo da Montefeltro, Count of, later Duke of, loses an eye,
116
; attacks Volterra,
126
-7; and Eugenius IV,
129
; papal troops under,
150

Urbino, Francesco,
165

Urbino, Francesco Maria (I) della Rovere, Duke of,
212
,
222
,
223
-4,
233

Urbino, Francesco Maria (II) della Rovere, Duke of,
285

Uzzano, Niccolò,
29
,
43
,
48
,
313

Valori, Filippo,
153
,
155

Vannino, Ottavio,
332

Varchi, Benedetto,
250
,
256
,
263
,
274
,
329

Vasari, Giorgio (1511-74),
328
; on Donatello and Cosimo
Paler Patriae
,
91
; on Donatello in old age,
92
; on the wax effigies of Lorenzo the Magnificent,
142
-3; and Lorenzo the Magniftcent’s school,
165
,
322
; on Michelangelo,
165
-6; on Verrocchio,
167
; architect of the Uffizi,
271
; and the Palazzo Vecchio,
274
,
275
,
278
,
312
; death of,
278
; and Santa Maria Novella,
314
; and Il Trebbio,
315
; and the Pucci,
315
; on Cafaggiolo,
318
; and Botticelli’s
Adoration of the Magi
,
320

Vatican, Library,
69
; Sistine Chapel,
167
; entry of Leo X into,
218
; Palace,
228
; Loggie di RafFaello,
229
; Stanze di Raf&ello,
229
,
245
,
325
-6; Clement VII commissions artists for,
240

Veneziano, Domenico,
315

Venice, Medici office in,
34
,
87
; slave-market in,
39
,
95
; Medicean exiles in,
52
,
54
; San Giorgio Maggiore,
54
,
315
; Cosimo
Pater Patriae
leaves,
58
; Neroni and Soderini in,
106
; Verrocchio’s bronze of Colleoni in,
167
; printing presses in,
169
; Lorenzaccio stabbed in,
265

Venice, Republic of, government of,
27
; and Cosimo
Pater Patriae
,
50
-1,
82
-3; and Fourth Crusade,
64
; and Florence,
79
,
82
-3,
105
,
106
,
130
,
186
; conquests by,
79
; Sforza a
condottiere
for,
81
; and Lombardy,
82
; declares war on Florence and Milan,
84
; and France,
184
; joins the Holy League,
194
; League of Cambrai designed against,
207
; and battle of Agnadello,
207
,
208
,
209

Veronese, Paolo,
prop
. Paolo Cagliari (1525–88),
322

Verrocchio, Andrea del (1435-88),
168
; and the Medici tomb,
112
,
321
; and Giovanni di Piero’s helmet,
122
; Lorenzo the Magnificent and,
167
,
315
; Vasari on,
167
; his bronze of Colleoni,
167
; Leonardo da Vinci and,
168
; his fountain,
275
,
316
; and the Medici emblem,
313
;
David
and
Resurrection
,
316
,
323
; memorial to Cosimo
Pater Patriae
,
319
; his
Putto
in Palazzo Vecchio,
330

Vespucci family,
325

Vespucci, Amerigo (1451-1512),
193
,
322

Vespucci, Giorgio,
193

Vespucci, Marco,
121

Vespucci, Simonetta,
née
Cattaneo,
121
,
322

Vettori, Francesco,
224
,
257
,
264

Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy,
331

Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy,
328

Villas,

Ambrogiana,
288
,
333

Belcanto,
318

Cafaggiolo,
164
,
267
; a place of refuge,
62
,
145
; Michelozzo designs,
77
; Cosimo
Pater Patriae
and,
78
; Lorenzo the Magnificent at,
122
,
134
,
145
; Montesecco at,
134
; mortgaged,
155
; and the sons of Pierfrancesco,
159
,
185
; fortress,
318

Careggi, Cosimo
Pater Patriae
at,
58
,
69
,
77
; Piero di Cosimo at,
105
; Lorenzo the Magnificent at,
114
,
122
,
173
; annual banquet at,
164
; Verrocchio’s works for,
167
,
275
,
316
; Duke of Urbino at,
235
; historical note on,
316

Castello,
267
,
274
; Giovanni di Pierfrancesco at,
185
; historical note on,
323
; garden of,
329
; Accademia della Crusca and,
330

Cereto Guidi,
277
,
330

Demidoff,
330

Ferdinanda,
280
,
331

Gianfigliazzi, Marignolle,
221

Il Trebbio,
77
,
257
,
267
,
315
,
318

Lappeggi,
290
,
299
,
300
,
304
,
333

Lecceto,
267

Le Fontanelle,
316

Madama,
326

Magliana,
230
,
238

Medici(Fiesole), completed,
78
; Michelozzo
and,
95
; Poliziano at,
122
,
146
; and the Pazzi plot,
134
-5; Lorenzo the Magnificent and,
164
; historical note on,
318

Medici (Rome),
330

Montelupo,
267

Montevecchio,
68
,
77

Negroni,
277

Petraia,
280
,
331

Poggio a Caiano,
322
; Lorenzo the Magnificent and,
114
,
164
,
172
,
314
; Duke of Urbino and,
235
; Cosimo I and,
267
; the park at,
274
; Marguerite-Louise at,
291
,
295
; Strozzi family and,
314
; architecture and artists of,
322

Poggio Imperiale,
282
,
309
,
332

Pratolino,
276
,
278
,
300
,
330

Ravia,
315

Spedaletto,
165
,
166

Violante Beatrice, Pricess of Bavaria,
see
Medici, Violante Beatrice de’

Visconti family,
59
,
81

Visconti, Bianca,
see
Sforza, Bianca

Visconti, Filippo Maria, Duke of Milan (1392-1447),
27
; and war between Florence and Lucca,
42
-3; and war with Florence,
79
; personality and appearance,
79
-80; his marriages,
80
; and Francesco Sforza,
81

Visconti, Valentina,
201

Vitelleschi, Cardinal.
56
,
57

Vitelli, Alessandro,
256
,
257
,
263

Vitelli,Niccolò,
129
-30

Volterra, sack of,
126

War of the Pazzi Conspiracy,
149
-50,
151
,
152
,
155

Weyden, Roger van der (1400-64),
314

Wolsey, Cardinal Thomas (
c
. 1475–1530),
239

Zoffany, John,
328

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