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	Pazzi
		The Pazzi are now most famous for involvement in the "Pazzi conspiracy" to assassinate Lorenzo de' Medici, that came to a head April 26, 1478.
		As a reward, Sixtus granted the Pazzi a monopoly at the alum mines at Tolfa— alum being an essential mordant in dyeing in the textile trade that was central to the Florentine economy— and he assigned to the Pazzi bank lucrative rights to manage papal revenues.
		After the conspiracy, the Pazzi were rehabilitated and returned to Florence, producing one saint, the ecstatic Carmelite nun Saint Maria Magdalena de' Pazzi (1566-1607).
	www.starrepublic.org /encyclopedia/wikipedia/p/pa/pazzi.html (887 words)

	Pazzi conspiracy - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Pazzi conspiracy, 1478, plot against Lorenzo de' Medici (Lorenzo il Magnifico) and his brother Giuliano, designed to end the hegemony of the Medici in the Florentine state and to enlarge papal territory.
		It was instigated by Pope Sixtus IV, his nephew Gerolamo Riario, Archbishop Salviati, and members of the Pazzi family, a wealthy Florentine family that rivaled the Medici.
		Actually, the Pazzi were tools in the conspiracy, which aimed not only at the death of the Medici, but at the elevation of Riario to power in Florence.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-pazzicon.html (339 words)

	Pazzi
		The Pazzi family were Tuscan nobles who had become bankers in Florence in the 14th century.
		After the conspiracy, the Pazzi were rehabilitated and returned to Florence.
		Rinaldo Pazzi is a modern-day Florentine corrupt police detective in the 1999 novel Hannibal and its film adaptation, released two years later.
	libraryoflibrary.com /E_n_c_p_d_Pazzi_Conspiracy.html (1297 words)

	Pazzi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Pope Sixtus IV then turned to the Pazzi family to borrow money, and quickly made one of the Pazzi family members the archbishop of Pisa.
		The Pazzi family quickly put together a plan to assassinate Lorenzo as he was leaving church.
		The plan was widely know, even the pope was reported to have said "I support it, as long as no one is killed." The assassination attempt failed in killing Lorenzo de' Medici, but succeeded in killing his younger brother Giuliano.
	www.teachtime.com /en/wikipedia/p/pa/pazzi.html (192 words)

	The Pazzi family were old Tuscan nobles who had become Florentine...
		The Pazzi are now most famous for involvement in the "Pazzi conspiracy" to assassin assassinate Lorenzo de' Medici Lorenzo de' Medici, that came to a head April 26 April 26, 1478 1478.
		The Pazzi, who were lesser rivals of the Medici Medici, were caught up in the conspiracy to replace the Medici as "de facto" rulers of Tuscany Tuscany with Girolamo Riario Girolamo Riario, a nephew of Francesco della Rovere, who was reigning as Pope Sixtus IV Pope Sixtus IV.
		As a reward, Sixtus granted the Pazzi a monopoly at the alum alum mines at Tolfa— alum being an essential mordant in dyeing in the textile trade that was central to the Florentine economy— and he assigned to the Pazzi bank lucrative rights to manage papal revenues.
	www.biodatabase.de /Pazzi (923 words)

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		Andrea Pazzi, the head of a wealthy banking family in the neighbourhood around Santa Croce, which included not only a large church but a Franciscan monastery, offered to build a chapter house for the monks as well as a structure that would function as a funerary chapel for his family.
		The Pazzi Chapel was one of Brunelleschi's last commissions and much of it was built between 1442 and 1446, the year of the architect's death.
		The 'Pazzi Conspiracy', as it has come to be known, ended with the Pazzi family being exiled from Florence.
	ic.ucsc.edu /~langdale/arth80i/Pazzi.htm (281 words)

	Pazzi
		The Pazzi family is famous for its conspiracy to kill Lorenzo de' Medici, termed the Pazzi conspiracy in 1478.
		The Pazzi family quickly put together a plan to asassinate Lorenzo as he was leaving church.
		The plan was widely know, even the pope was reported to have said "I support it, as long as no one is killed." The asassination attempt failed in killing Lorenzo de' Medici, but succeeded in killing his younger brother Giuliano.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pa/Pazzi.html (167 words)

	conspiracy — FactMonster.com
		With the rise of the labor movement in the 19th cent., British and American courts used this legal consent against unions; courts held that while an individual employee might lawfully abstain from work, the concerted stoppage of a group of employees, as in a strike, might be criminal.
		A statement of a conspirator in furtherance of the conspiracy is admissible against all conspirators, even if the statement includes damaging references to another conspirator, and often even if it violates the rules against hearsay evidence.
		Pazzi conspiracy - Pazzi conspiracy, 1478, plot against Lorenzo de' Medici (Lorenzo il Magnifico) and his brother...
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	Hannibal & The Silence of the Lambs - Official Site - Now on DVD
		Pazzi and Salviati were judged to be the leaders and were ceremoniously hung from a window of the Palazzo Vecchio above the Piazza della Signoria.
		It is reported that Pazzi was naked and disembowled - and if that weren’t indignity enough, his enraged partner in crime, while dangling at the end of his rope, managed to swing himself over and sink his teeth into Pazzi’s shoulder.
		The Pazzi Conspiracy is a part of history taught to every Florentine schoolchild.
	www.hannibaldvd.com /english/journal/entries/06/d.html (496 words)

	In April of 1478
		Although Medicean propaganda denounced the Pazzi conspiracy as an act of lèse-majesté - an offense against the sovereignty taking the form of an assault (or worse) on the person of the sovereign - the charge couldn't stick, because Lorenzo, however powerful, was not a sovereign.
		The Pazzi Conspiracy throws a strong light on every aspect of Florentine politics, and Professor Martines is a proficient developer of the evidence, much of which remains in fifteenth-century folios.
		Professor Martines examines the background of the Pazzi family in detail, so that we have a good sense of where the family's fortune came from, how it was distributed among sons and cousins, and how it led to rivalry with the Medici.
	www.portifex.com /Dates/Archive/pazzi.htm (1382 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for conspiracy
		At common law, the crime of conspiracy was committed with the making of the agreement, but present-day statutes require an overt step by a conspirator to further the conspiracy.
		Amboise, conspiracy of 1560, plot of the Huguenots (French Protestants) and the house of Bourbon to usurp the power of the Guise family, which virtually ruled France during the reign of the young Francis II.
		Rye House Plot 1683, conspiracy to assassinate Charles II of England and his brother James, duke of York (later James II), as they passed by Rumbold's Rye House in Hertfordshire on the road from Newmarket to London.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=conspiracy&StartAt=1 (674 words)

	The Pazzi Conspiracy
		All Pazzi assets were seized, and declarations made that all who the Pazzi owed money to were to present their accounts to the Eight for reimbursement.
		The traditional Pazzi family Easter “sacred fire” ritual was decreed by the Signoria to be banned forthwith and forever.
		Surviving Pazzi men were sentenced to life imprisonment in the tower prison of Volterra; others were sent into permanent exile; no man related to the Pazzi through marriage could hold public office and was considered persona-non-grata.
	www3.telus.net /Quattrocento_Florence/pazzi-reprisals.html (1119 words)

	History of Florence: Pazzi's Conspiracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Pazzi were a rich family of bankers of the Florence of the Renaissance.
		The conspiracy had the support of the pope Sisto IV, who was interested to appropriate some Florentine territories that had always withstood him.
		Francesco de' Pazzi was hung to the third window of the Loggia dei Lanzi and also Francesco Salviati, his brother Jacopo and other priests conspirators suffered the same fate.
	www.aboutflorence.com /pazzi-conspiracy.html (365 words)

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		The Medici were the victims of the conspiracy, with little mercy to hope for should the plot have been successful.
		However, Martines explains why the Pazzi were driven to become conspirators and murderers; he presents the April conspiracy as a direct confrontation between ‘magnate’ Pazzi and ‘upstart’ Medici.
		The surviving Pazzi were rehabilitated days after the Medici’s forced departure in 1494, and some played a minor role in sixteenth-century Florentine politics.
	www2.warwick.ac.uk /fac/arts/ren/publications/journal/ten/martines.doc (1495 words)

	conspiracy — Infoplease.com
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	www.infoplease.com /ce6/society/A0813299.html (469 words)

	Hannibal: Section II
		Mason Verger, whose name means a caretaker of a church, contracted with a Pazzi to kill the curator of the Capponi library who had a thing for a girl named Clarice.
		Dionysos was born from the thigh of Zeus.
		Again, oranges are mentioned in the context of a loving relationship that goes pear-shaped (bad wordplay): Clarice and her father sharing oranges, the gypsy woman and Gnocco sharing an orange before he is killed, and Pazzi’s wife and her smell mentioned before he is disemboweled.
	hannibal.hannotations.com /hannibal2.html (5063 words)

	Lorenzo de' Medici - MalibuMountainWiki
		On April 26, 1478, in an incident called the Pazzi Conspiracy, a group including members of Pazzi family, backed by the Archbishop of Pisa and his patron Pope Sixtus IV, attacked Lorenzo and his brother and co-ruler Giuliano in the cathedral of Florence.
		The conspiracy was brutally put down (against the express request of Lorenzo), including the lynching of the Archbishop.
		In the aftermath of the Pazzi Conspiracy and the punishment of the Pope's supporters, the Medici and Florence suffered from the wrath of the Pope.
	www.malibumountaingallery.com /wiki/index.php/Lorenzo_de'_Medici (1314 words)

	1478. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		The Riarios plotted to have Lorenzo and Giuliano assassinated in the cathedral at Easter Mass.
		The Medici almost exterminated the Pazzi and hounded the fugitives all over Italy.
		Sixtus laid an interdict on Florence and excommunicated Lorenzo; Alfonso of Calabria invaded Tuscany.
	www.bartleby.com /67/536.html (645 words)

	Airtools Store: April Blood: Florence and the Plot against the Medici - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The conspiracy was lеd by one of the city's most noble clans, the Pazzi, financiers who feared and rеsеntеd the Medici's swaggering new role as political bosses--but the web of intrigue spread thrоugh all of Italy.
		The sаmе for the Pazzi, for they were suppressed, and thus sympathy wаs on their side, but the savage destruction they wrought upon their own fаmilу and others in order to satisfy their lust for power leaves a distaste in their wake.
		The bitter pill swallowed during the Pazzi War that followed would not be еаsilу forgotten, Florence was on its knees, its finances in ruins.
	www.airtools-store.info /good30313935313532393536.html (1659 words)

	Pazzi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		From the fireworks' explosion (the scoppio del carro), sparks would be carried to the city's hearths.
		The coup d'état failed, and the enraged Florentines seized and killed the conspirators.
		Pazzi Chapel: Brief description, with clear and evocative photos
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pazzi (1329 words)

	Two hours in Florence
		The Pazzi plotted to kill Lorenzo and Giuliano, the heads of the Medici family.
		The curse on the Pazzi name seems to continue in modern times when the last of the Pazzi, played by actor Giancarlo Giannini, comes to a sticky end in the film ‘Hannibal’.
		While there may be little of the Pazzi family left in Florence the Medici seem to have left their mark all over the city.
	www.italiaplease.com /eng/megazine/giroditalia/2001/04/florence (510 words)

	April Blood: Florence and the Plot Against the Medici - PowerBookSearch!
		The conspiracy was led by one of the city's most noble clans, the Pazzi, financiers who feared and resented the Medici's swaggering new role as political bosses--but the web of intrigue spread through all of Italy.
		All remaining members of the Pazzi clan were forced to change their surname, and every public sign or symbol of the family was destroyed.
		Members of the Pazzi, an older Florentine family resentful of the parvenu Medici, attempted to assassinate Lorenzo in the city￯﾿ﾽs cathedral on an April Sunday in 1478.
	www.powerbooksearch.com /booksearch0195152956.html (1502 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Historians of 15th century Florence have called the incident the Pazzi conspiracy as it was hatched by the Pazzi family, a rival of the Medicis.
		The archbishop of Pisa, Francesco Salviati, was a principal plotter in the anti-Medici conspiracy.
		Martines moves effortlessly from his detailed recreation of the Pazzi plot and its suppression, to the broader political and social trends that made such a plot and the bloody reprisals possible.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1030328/asp/opinion/story_1815037.asp (536 words)

	The Pazzi Conspiracy
		On that Easter Sunday Florentines were unaware of the hundreds of mercenary troops already within the borders of Tuscany, poised to invade the city at a signal that never came.
		They were unaware that the far-reaching conspiracy to assassinate the heads of Florence’s premiere family and to seize its government by force included the Napolese and Papal thrones.
		The answers to these questions began to come to light within days of the incident during the confessions of a hired soldier, and concluded by the discovery of a encrypted letter decoded over five hundred years later.
	www3.telus.net /Quattrocento_Florence/pazzi.html (303 words)

	Assassination (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The killing of former Beatle John Lennon would raise the same problem — despite his outspokenness on many liberal political issues, the killer does not seem to have been more than an unstable fan (although it may be of note that the word is derived from fanatic).
		In another example, although conspiracy theorists suggest the apparent suicide of Marilyn Monroe might have been a politically motivated murder, the term "assassination" is rarely, if ever, used in this context.
		Best-known among Assassination conspiracy theories in the United States are those dealing with a rash of seemingly politically motivated deaths in the 1960s, notably those of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr.
	assassination.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (4082 words)

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