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The Montefeltro conspiracy : a Renaissance mystery decoded

By Botticelli , Sandro; da Montefeltro Duke of Urbino Federico; Medici , Giuliano de'; Medici , Lorenzo de'; Pope Sixtus IV; Botticelli , Sandro; Pope Sixtus IV; Medici , Lorenzo de'; Simonetta , Marcello; Medici , Giuliano de'; da Montefeltro Duke of Urbino Federico

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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year
2008
ISBN
978-0-385-52680-7, 0385526806
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (2713172 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2017-08-15 11:00:00
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Description

A brutal murder, a nefarious plot, a coded letter. After five hundred years, the most notorious mystery of the Renaissance is finally solved. The Italian Renaissance is remembered as much for intrigue as it is for art, with papal politics and infighting among Italy's many city-states providing the grist for Machiavelli's classic work on take-no-prisoners politics, The Prince. The attempted assassination of the Medici brothers in the Duomo in Florence in 1478 is one of the best-known examples of the machinations endemic to the age. While the assailants were the Medici's rivals, the Pazzi family, questions have always lingered about who really orchestrated the attack, which has come to be known as the Pazzi Conspiracy. More than five hundred years later, Marcello Simonetta, working in a private archive in Italy, stumbled upon a coded letter written by Federico da Montefeltro, the Duke of Urbino, to Pope Sixtus IV. Using a codebook written by his own...

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