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DESCENDANTS OF COSIMO DI GIOVANNI DI BICCI DE’MEDICI

DESCENDANTS OF LORENZO DI GIOVANNI DI BICCI DE’MEDICI

Acciaiuoli, Agnolo, banished, 55, 106; and the Medici, 61, 103-4, 105; diplomacy with France, 84, 85

Acciaiuoli, Donato, 122, 148

Acciaiuoli, Piero, 122

Accoramboni, Francesco, 277

Accoramboni, Vittoria, 277-8

Agnolo, Baccio d’, 325

Albany, Louisa, Countess of, 325

Albert II, German Emperor (d. 1439), 64

Alberti, House of, 35

Alberti, Leon Battista (1404–72), on poverty, 28; and Palazzo Rucellai, 29, 313; at Camaldoli Abbey, 122; and Tuscan poetry, 171; and Santa Maria Novella, 313

Albizzi family, power and achievements of, 32–3; and the Medici, 40, 41, 43, 47; Uzzano and, 48; and the anti-Medicean plot, 50, 52; growing unpopularity of, 54–5; and the Duke of Milan, 79, 80; lose hope of returning to power, 80

Albizzi, Antonfrancesco degli, 212, 215

Albizzi, Ginevra degli, see Medici, Ginevra de’

Albizzi, Eleonora degli, 272

Albizzi, Rinaldo di’ Messer Maso degli, 32; personality, 42; and humanism, 43–4; and the anti-Medicean plot, 48, 49, 50, 52; on conflict with the mighty, 54; takes up arms, 55–6; loses support, 56–7; and Eugenius IV, 57; banished, 58; goes on pilgrimage, 80; Parentucelli and, 87

Alfonso I, King of Naples, 81, 84, 85

Alfonso II, King of Naples, 183, 184, 193

Alidosi, Francesco, Cardinal, 223

Allori, Alesundro (1535–1607), 322

Almeni, Sforza, 272

Ambrose, St, 71, 98

Ammanati, Bartolomeo (1511–92) and the Pitti Palace, 271, 328; Cosimo I and, 274; and the Villa Pratolino, 276; and San Giovannino degli Scolopi, 317; and the Villa of Castello, 323, 329; and the Neptune Fountain, 327; and the Pontc alia Carraia, 329

Ammianus Marcellinus, 45

Ammirato, Scipio, 163

Angelico, Fra, real name Guido di Pietri, monastic name Giovanni da Fiesole (1387–1455), his history, 94; his nature, 94; Gozzoli and, 110; his Crucifixion , 319; his Annunciation , 319

Anna Maria, Electress Palatine, neé Anna Maria Luisa di Cosimo de’ Medici, (1667–1743), 291; her marriage, 304; widowed, 304; and the Tuscan succession, 305; the last of the Medici, 309; death of, 310; her bequest, 310–11

Anna Maria Francesca of Saxe-Lauenberg, see Medici, Anna Maria Francesca, de’

Anne, Duchess of Brittany, and later Queen of France, 183

Antelminelli, Castrucrio Castracani degli, 320

Anttnori, Bernardino, 277

Antonio da Sangalio, 325

Apicius, Marcus Gabius, 45

Argyropoulos, John (1416-c. 1486), 69, 111, 122, 170

Ariosto, Ludovico(1474–1533), 227

Aristotle, 68

Arno, river, water displays on, 119, 282; Pazzi’s corpse in, 141; Savonarola’s remains thrown into, 200; in flood, 223, 279–80; Buonnacorsi’s corpse in, 270-1; Acciaiuoli palace on, 315

Assisi, 65, 74, 143

Astrology, 97–8, 324, 327

Avogrado, Giovanni, 317

Baglioni, Cesare, 330

Baglioni, Gian-Paolo, 207

Baldese, Ambrogiodi, 331

Baldovinetti, Mariotto, 52

Bande Nere, Giovanni delle, see Medici, Giovanni di Giovanni de’

Bank, Medici, branches of, 34; and the Papacy, 35, 36, 37, 88, 89, 129; Cosimo Pater Patriot and, 49, 59–60; and the, Florentine government, 55; Sforza and, 82; and alliance with Milan, 83; under Cosimo Pater Patriot , 86–8; and Sixtus IV, 128–9, 148; and Cittá di Castello, 129; declining fortunes of, 158

Banquets, at the wedding of Lorenzo the Magnificent, 117–18; given by Giovanni di Lorenzo as cardinal and Pope, 206, 225–6; given by the cardinals under Leo X and by Agostino Chigi, 224–5; Leo X’s, 225; for wedding of Maria de’ Medici, 281; in the Palazzo Vecchio, 289; of Cosimo III, 297

Baraballo, Fra, 226–7

Barbadori family, 316

Barbadori, Niccolò, 55, 57, 58

Bardi family, bankers, 39; and the Medici, 43, 87; their chapel in Santa Croce, 313; and the Via de’ Bardi, 314; and the Villa Medici, 318

Bardi, Bartolomeo de’, 36

Bardi, Contessina de’, see Medici, Contessina de’

Bardi, Giovanni de’, 38

Bardi, Niccolò di Betto, 90

Baroncelli, Bernardo Bandini, 135–6, 137, 138, 142

Bartolommeo, Fra, prop . Baccio della Porta (1475–1517), 192, 301 Battles,

Agnadello (1509), 207, 208, 209

Anghiari, (1440), 80, 194

Barga (1437), 80

Fomovo (1495), 195

Imola (1434), 55

Imola (1467), 107

Lepanto (1570), 266, 267

Marignano(1515), 220

Montemurlo(1537), 263

Pa via (1525), 240

Ravenna (1512), 208, 209

Beccadelli, Antonio, Henttaphroditus , 91

Becchi, Gentile, Bishop of Arezzo, 103, 165

Benavieni, Antonio, 107

Benci, Giovanni d’Amerigo, 87, 95

Benedetto da Rovezzano, 321, 323

Bentivoglio family, 65, 209, 222

Bentivogiio, Giovanni, and Lorenzo the Magnificent, 103, 149–50; warns Piero di Cosimo, 105; and capture and recapture of Bologna, 207, 208

Berlinghieri, Jacopo, 49

Bernardino of Siena, St (1380–1444), 23