Francesco de' Pazzi

Francesco de' Pazzi (28 January 1444 – 26 April 1478) was an Italian banker and one of the instigators of the Pazzi conspiracy. He, Jacopo de' Pazzi and Renato de' Pazzi were executed after the plot failed.[1]

Francesco de' Pazzi
Francesco de' Pazzi stabbing Giuliano de' Medici
Coat of arms
Born28 January 1444
Florence, Italy
Died26 April 1478(1478-04-26) (aged 34)
Florence, Italy
Noble familyPazzi
OccupationBanker

On Sunday, 26 April 1478, in an incident known as the Pazzi conspiracy, a group headed by Girolamo Riario, Francesco de' Pazzi and Francesco Salviati attacked Lorenzo de' Medici and his brother, the co-ruler Giuliano, in the Duomo of Florence, Santa Maria del Fiore, in an attempt to seize control of the Florentine government.[2] Giuliano de' Medici was assassinated by Francesco de' Pazzi and Bernardo Baroncelli.[3] He was killed by a sword wound to the head and was stabbed 19 times.[4]

Francesco de' Pazzi was sung by bass Ludovico Contini in the first performance of Leoncavallo's 1893 opera I Medici.[5][6]

He is a character in the video game Assassin's Creed II and is voice acted by Andreas Apergis,[7] where he has a son named Vieri, who appears also in Assassin's Creed: The Ezio Collection.[8] Both characters are killed by the series protagonist Ezio Auditore da Firenze.

Elliot Levey portrayed Francesco de' Pazzi in TV series Da Vinci's Demons.[9]

Francesco is referenced in the movie Hannibal where Hannibal Lecter meets a modern day relative, Chief Inspector Rinaldo Pazzi. Rinaldo tries to capture Hannibal as part of large reward, however he meets a similar fate to his predecessor. He appears in the second season of Medici: Masters of Florence, played by Matteo Martari.[10]

References
  1. Hibbert, Christopher (6 December 2001) [1 January 1974]. The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin UK. p. 141. ISBN 0140050906.
  2. Jensen, De Lamar (1992). Renaissance Europe: Age of Recovery and Reconciliation (2nd ed.). Lexington, Massachusetts: D. C. Heath and Company. p. 80. doi:10.2307/3167078. ISBN 9780669200072. OCLC 25171924.
  3. Smedley, Edward; James, Hugh James; Rose, Henry John (1845). Encyclopaedia Metropolitana; Or, Universal Dictionary of Knowledge on an Original Plan Comprising the Twofold Advantage of a Philosophical and an Alphabetical Arrangement, with Appropriate Engravings. B. Fellowes. p. 272.
  4. Koestler-Grack, Rachel A. (1974). Joseph, Michael (ed.). Leonardo Da Vinci: Artist, Inventor, and Renaissance Man. Infobase Publishing. p. 152. ISBN 978-0791086261.
  5. Casaglia, Gherardo (2005)."I Medici, 9 November 1893". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).
  6. Farr, Robert J. (August 2010). "Review – Leoncavallo – I Medici". MusicWeb International. Retrieved 30 August 2010.
  7. Castaño Ruiz, Clara (18 October 2015). "Assassin's Creed: 10 momentos históricos de la saga". Hobby Consolas (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  8. Makedonski, Brett (14 November 2016). "The Ezio Collection represents some of the best and the worst for Assassin's Creed". Destructoid. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  9. Hale, Mike (11 April 2013). "The He-Man Who Gave Mona Lisa That Smile". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  10. Spencer, Samuel (26 January 2019). "Medici family tree: How are the new characters related to season 1?". Daily Express. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
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