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Authors: Christopher Hibbert
The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici (70 page)
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
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
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, Lucrezia,
née
Lucrezia di Piero de’ Medici,
102
Rucellai, Palla,
257
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, Lucrezia,
neé
Medici, Lucrezia di Lorenzo de’,
115
Salviati, Maria,
see
Medici, Maria de’
San Leo, fortess of,
236
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
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, 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, 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
Soderini, Paolo Antonio,
155
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
Stendhal,
pseud
. of Marie Henri Beyle,
325
Strozzi family,
314
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
Sustermans, Justus,
283
Talenti, Simone,
329
Tasso, Giovanni Battitta,
313
Tinucci, Niccolò,
51
Tornabuoni, Francesco,
114
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
