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, née 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 Battista, 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 (1452), 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, née Sforza, 332
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, Ferderigo da Montefeltro, Duke of, loses an eye, 116; attacks Volterra, 126–7; and Eugenius IV, 129; papal troops under, 150; and printed books, 169
Urbino, Francesco, 165
Urbino, Francesco Maria (II) della Rovere, Duke of, 285
Urbino, Francesco Maria (I) della Rovere, Duke of, 212, 222, 223–4, 233
Uzzano, Niccolò da, 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 Pater Patriae, 91; on Donatello in old age, 92; on the wax effigies of Lorenzo the Magnificent, 142–3; and Lorenzo the Magnificent’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 II 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 Raffaello, 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 Aguadello, 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
II 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
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
Spedaletto, 165, 166
Violante Beatrice, Pricess of Bavaria, see Medici, Violante Beatrice de’
Visconti family, 59, 81
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
Vitelleschi, Cardinal, 56, 57
Vitelli, Alessandro, 256, 257, 263
Vitelli, Niccolò, 129–30
Volterra, sack of, 126
War of the Pazzi Conspiracy, 149–50, 151, 152, 155
Weyden, Roger van der (1400–64), 314
Wolsey, Cardinal Thomas (c. 1475–1530), 239
Zoffany, John, 328
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
CHRISTOPHER HIBBERT wa
s born in Leicester in 1924 and educated at Radley and Oriel College, Oxford. Described by the New Statesman as “a pearl of biographers,” he has established himself as a leading popular historian whose works reflect meticulous scholarship and has written more than twenty-five histories and biographies. Married with three children, he lives in Oxfordshire.
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