Enemies of the Medici (c. 1480s)?
DP
killed Giuliano de Medici were soon executed, did Lorenzo "the
Magnificent" have any serious enemies to contend with afterward?
Surely there were at least families in Florence who resented the
Medicis' prominence, but I haven't found any names in my reading. I
know that Lorenzo's eldest daughter, Lucrezia, married a Salviati--was
he a relative of the Salviati involved in the assassination plot, and
was that marriage a "response" to that?
If anyone knows of specific enemies of Lorenzo's son and heir, Piero,
that would be very helpful as well. I KNOW he had enemies, but my
sources simply say he did but don't bother to name them. Very
frustrating!
If there are any experts out there who can provide some info on Medici
rivals, I'd be very grateful.
Thanks for any help you can offer.
DP
Matthew Harley
DP wrote:
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> If anyone knows of specific enemies of Lorenzo's son and heir, Piero,
> that would be very helpful as well. I KNOW he had enemies, but my
> sources simply say he did but don't bother to name them. Very
> frustrating!
>
> If there are any experts out there who can provide some info on Medici
> rivals, I'd be very grateful.
Because he sided with the French, and died fighting for them on the
Garigliano 28 or 29 December 1503, he was probably most hated by the
Medici, particularly by his brother, Giovanni de Medicis, later Pope Leo
X, who was fervently anti-French!
Matt Harley
Chris Dickinson
Oh dear, this was the area I specialised in as an undergraduate 30
years ago - and I can't remember a damn thing. Now I feel old.
One book that may help you is Nicolai Rubinstein's 'The Government
of Florence under the Medici (1434 to 1494)' [OUP, Clarendon
Press, 1966).
This has, at least, long lists of names of the Accoppiatori and
Balie at the back. However, the text doesn't precisely pinpoint
which of these were less than happy with Lorenzo's rule. The
leaders of the 1494 action against Piero were: Luca di Bertoldo
Corsini, Gianfrancesco di Bernardo de' Lippi, Francesco di M. Otto
Niccolini, Filippo di Nicol Sacchetti, Giuliano di Nofri Lenzoni,
Chimenti di Francesco Angeli, Antonio di Giovanni Lorini,
Francesco d'Antonio Taddei, and [Gonfalonier of Justice] Francesco
di Martino della Scarfa. This taken from footnote 3 on page 233.
Rubinstein comments on p 231: "There remained throughout the
period of Medicean ascendancy an undercurrent of dissatisfaction,
which was revealed, time and again, in narrow majorities for
Medicean legislation."
He also comments [pages 200/201] that the reforms of 1480 were not
met with wholehearted approval and quotes the Este ambassador
repeating a bit of tittle-tattle that Tommasso Soderini said
'siamo periculati' - 'we are in danger'. But that's politics for
you.
The text does, however, make two points that confirm the existence
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His cousins, Giovanni and Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de Medici (or di Popolo)
immediately spring to mind but you need to look for people associated with
the Republican party within Florentine politics, particularly after Piero
was kicked out, names like Soderini, Capponi, Acciciuoli spring to mind from
earlier. Obviously the Pazzi and to a lesser extent Strozzi werent fans and
of course Savonarola. Rubinstein is the best bet, plus you might glean some
information on opposition to Lorenzo, which would then pass to his son, from
Melissa Bullards collection of essays on Lorenzo, 'Lorenzo il Magnifico:
Image and Anxiety, Politics and Finance (Olschki, Florence, 1992) and Alison
Brown, 'The Medici in Florence: the exercise and language of power'. Also
maybe John Hale Florence and the Medici and the two collections of essays
edited by Garfagnini, Lorenzo de Medici: Studi (essential reprints) and
Lorenzo il Magnifico e il suo mondo (mostly in english) both published by
Olschki. All thses should be avaliable from good academic libraries.
Unfortunately most books either concentrate on the Laurentian or
Savonarolan periods ignoring Piero. As far as I remember the Pazzi
conspiracy didnt really embrace much of the Florentine opposition to the
Medici but was a Papal-Neapolitan backed plot aimed at Lorenzo because he
had blocked Papal (specifically Girolamo Riario) pretensions in the Romagna
(Imola) and at Citta di Castello. Im feeling very frustrated now as I cant
find any of the info I know is there
Ilmoro
Oh also P Clarke The Soderini and the Medici might have something.
Matthew Harley
Matthew Harley wrote:
Some of the following might be of interest:
Butters, H. C., Governors and Government in Early Sixteenth-Century Florence
1502-1519, Clarendon, Oxford, 1985.
Perrens F.T. Histoire de Florence depuis la domination des Médicis jusqu'à
la chute de la République (1434-1531), Paris, Quantin, 1888-1890.
Lowe, K. J. P., Church and Politics in Renaissance Italy - The life and
career of Cardinal Francesco Soderini, 1453-1524, Cambridge Studies in
Italian History and Culture, Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Guicciardini, Francesco, The History of Italy, edited and translated by
Sidney Alexander, Princeton, 1984.
Matt Harley
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