Jacopo de' Pazzi

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Jacopo de' Pazzi (1423 – 28 April 1478) was a Florentine banker who became head of the Pazzi family in 1464, and was the younger child of Andrea de' Pazzi and Costanza de' Bardi. He commissioned Palazzo Pazzi between 1462 and 1472. Stefano di Ser Niccolo da Bagnone served as a secretary to Jacopo and tutor to his daughter Caterina. He was killed alongside his nephews Francesco and Renato after the failed Pazzi conspiracy, which was a plot to remove the Medici family from power in Florence. The conspiracy was proposed in Montughi, at Jacopo's villa, when several individuals dissatisfied with the Medici's rule over the Florentine Republic met to plan the assassination of Lorenzo and Giuliano de' Medici, which would allow them to take over the government of Florence. On 26 April 1478, Easter Sunday, the conspirators attempted to kill Lorenzo and Giuliano while the pair were attending High Mass at the Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral; Giuliano was stabbed to death, but Lorenzo was only wounded...

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