Within months of his election, he had made Giuliano della Rovere (the future pope Julius II) and Pietro Riario both cardinals and bishops four other nephews were also made cardinals.
As Sixtus IV, he was both wealthy and powerful and at once set about giving power and wealth to his nephews of the della Rovere and Riario families. The surviving Pazzi family members were banished from Florence.įrancesco della Rovere, who came from a poor family in Liguria, was elected pope in 1471. The failure of the plot served to strengthen the position of the Medici. Lorenzo was wounded but survived Giuliano was killed. On 26 April 1478 there was an attempt to assassinate Lorenzo de' Medici and his brother Giuliano. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the author of many books, including Disraeli, Edward VII, George IV, The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici, and Cavaliers and Roundheads.ĭescribed by Professor Sir John Plumb as " a writer of the highest ability and in the New Statesman as " a pearl of biographers," he established himself as a leading popular historian/biographer whose works reflected meticulous scholarship.The Pazzi conspiracy ( Italian: Congiura dei Pazzi) was a failed plot by members of the Pazzi family and others to displace the Medici family as rulers of Renaissance Florence. Christopher Hibbert, MC, FRSL, FRGS (5 March 1924 - 21 December 2008) was an English writer, historian and biographer. Described by Professor Sir John Plumb as " a writer of the highest ability and in the New Statesman as " a pearl of biographers," he established himself as a leading popular historian/biographer whose works reflected meticulous scholarship. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the author of many books, including Disraeli, Edward VII, George IV, The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici, and Cavaliers and Roundheads.
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