Christopher - The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici

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, Isabella, Duchess of Milan, 183, 184

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

Slaves, 23-4, 33, 39-40, 95, 266

Soderini, Francesco, Cardinal, 217, 232, 231, 234, 238

Soderini, Niccolò, 104-5, 106, 123

Soderini, Paolo Antonio, 155

Soderini, Piero, 210-11, 212-13, 214, 215

Soderini, Tommaso, 110, 123, 152

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

Spini, House of, 35, 37

Squarcialupi, Antonio, 165, 172

Stefano da Bagnone, Fra, 136, 137-8, 141

Stendhal, pseud . of Marie Henri Beyle, 325

Strozzi family, 314

Strozzi, Clarice, neé Medici, Clarice di Piero de’, 202, 248

Strozzi, Filippo the Elder (1428-91), 137, 168, 323-4

Strozzi, Filippo the Younger (1489-1538), 262, 323

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

Sumptuary laws, 22, 24

Sustermans, Justus, 283

Switzerland, Swiss army in Lombardy, 209; Leo X and, 220

Tacca, Ferdinando, 286, 332

Tacca, Pietro, 328, 331

Tadda, Romolo del, 328, 332

Talenti, Simone, 329

Tasso, Giovanni Battitta, 313

Tinucci, Niccolò, 51

Titian, prop . Tiziano Vercelli ( d . 1576), 328, 332

Tornabuoni family, 43, 102

Tornabuoni, Francesco, 114

Tornabuoni, Giovanni, 103, 106, 114, 178, 319

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

Tranchedini da Pontremoli, Nicodemo, 83, 97

Traversari, Ambrogio, 44, 47, 51, 66, 67

Treaties,

Barcelona (1529), 249

Lodi (1454), 85

Montil-les-Tours (1432), 84

Tribolo, Niccolò Pericoli, 271, 274, 323, 329

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

Uccello, Paolo, prop . Paolo di Dono, 108, 320

Università degli Studi , 315

University of Florence, 45, 46, 47-8, 170, 274

University of Padua, 282

University of Pisa, 274, 282, 297

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, Duchy of, 219, 222, 224, 285

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

Uzzano, Niccolò, 29, 43, 48, 313

Valori, Filippo, 153, 155

Vannino, Ottavio, 332

Varchi, Benedetto, 250, 256, 263, 274, 329

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, Amerigo (1451-1512), 193, 322

Vespucci, Giorgio, 193

Vespucci, Marco, 121

Vespucci, Simonetta, née Cattaneo, 121, 322

Vettori, Francesco, 224, 257, 264

Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy, 331

Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy, 328

Villas,

Ambrogiana, 288, 333

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

Cereto Guidi, 277, 330

Demidoff, 330

Ferdinanda, 280, 331

Gianfigliazzi, Marignolle, 221

Il Trebbio, 77, 257, 267, 315, 318

Lappeggi, 290, 299, 300, 304, 333

Lecceto, 267

Le Fontanelle, 316

Madama, 326

Magliana, 230, 238

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

Montevecchio, 68, 77

Negroni, 277

Petraia, 280, 331

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

Poggio Imperiale, 282, 309, 332

Pratolino, 276, 278, 300, 330

Ravia, 315