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Authors: Christopher Hibbert
The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici (71 page)
Treaties,
Barcelona (1529),
249
Lodi (1454),
85
Montil-les-Tours (1432),
84
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
Università degli Studi
,
315
University of Padua,
282
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, 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
Vannino, Ottavio,
332
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, Giorgio,
193
Vespucci, Marco,
121
Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy,
331
Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy,
328
Villas,
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
Demidoff,
330
Gianfigliazzi, Marignolle,
221
Lecceto,
267
Le Fontanelle,
316
Madama,
326
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
Negroni,
277
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
Ravia,
315
Violante Beatrice, Pricess of Bavaria,
see
Medici, Violante Beatrice de’
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
Vitelli,Niccolò,
129
-30
Volterra, sack of,
126
Weyden, Roger van der (1400-64),
314
Wolsey, Cardinal Thomas (
c
. 1475–1530),
239
Zoffany, John,
328
