Albizzi family, power and achievements of, 32–3; and the Medici, 40, 41, 43, 47; Uzzano and, 48; and the anti-Medicean plot, 50, 52; growing unpopularity of, 54–5; and the Duke of Milan, 79, 80; lose hope of returning to power, 80
Albizzi, Antonfrancesco degli, 212, 215
Albizzi, Ginevra degli, see Medici, Ginevra de’
Albizzi, Eleonora degli, 272
Albizzi, Rinaldo di’ Messer Maso degli, 32; personality, 42; and humanism, 43–4; and the anti-Medicean plot, 48, 49, 50, 52; on conflict with the mighty, 54; takes up arms, 55–6; loses support, 56–7; and Eugenius IV, 57; banished, 58; goes on pilgrimage, 80; Parentucelli and, 87
Alfonso I, King of Naples, 81, 84, 85
Alfonso II, King of Naples, 183, 184, 193
Alidosi, Francesco, Cardinal, 223
Allori, Alesundro (1535–1607), 322
Almeni, Sforza, 272
Ambrose, St, 71, 98
Ammanati, Bartolomeo (1511–92) and the Pitti Palace, 271, 328; Cosimo I and, 274; and the Villa Pratolino, 276; and San Giovannino degli Scolopi, 317; and the Villa of Castello, 323, 329; and the Neptune Fountain, 327; and the Pontc alia Carraia, 329
Ammianus Marcellinus, 45
Ammirato, Scipio, 163
Angelico, Fra, real name Guido di Pietri, monastic name Giovanni da Fiesole (1387–1455), his history, 94; his nature, 94; Gozzoli and, 110; his Crucifixion, 319; his Annunciation, 319
Anna Maria, Electress Palatine, neé Anna Maria Luisa di Cosimo de’ Medici, (1667–1743), 291; her marriage, 304; widowed, 304; and the Tuscan succession, 305; the last of the Medici, 309; death of, 310; her bequest, 310–11
Anna Maria Francesca of Saxe-Lauenberg, see Medici, Anna Maria Francesca, de’
Anne, Duchess of Brittany, and later Queen of France, 183
Antelminelli, Castrucrio Castracani degli, 320
Anttnori, Bernardino, 277
Antonio da Sangalio, 325
Apicius, Marcus Gabius, 45
Argyropoulos, John (1416-c. 1486), 69, 111, 122, 170
Ariosto, Ludovico(1474–1533), 227
Aristotle, 68
Arno, river, water displays on, 119, 282; Pazzi’s corpse in, 141; Savonarola’s remains thrown into, 200; in flood, 223, 279–80; Buonnacorsi’s corpse in, 270-1; Acciaiuoli palace on, 315
Assisi, 65, 74, 143
Astrology, 97–8, 324, 327
Avogrado, Giovanni, 317
Baglioni, Cesare, 330
Baglioni, Gian-Paolo, 207
Baldese, Ambrogiodi, 331
Baldovinetti, Mariotto, 52
Bande Nere, Giovanni delle, see Medici, Giovanni di Giovanni de’
Bank, Medici, branches of, 34; and the Papacy, 35, 36, 37, 88, 89, 129; Cosimo Pater Patriot and, 49, 59–60; and the, Florentine government, 55; Sforza and, 82; and alliance with Milan, 83; under Cosimo Pater Patriot, 86–8; and Sixtus IV, 128–9, 148; and Cittá di Castello, 129; declining fortunes of, 158
Banquets, at the wedding of Lorenzo the Magnificent, 117–18; given by Giovanni di Lorenzo as cardinal and Pope, 206, 225–6; given by the cardinals under Leo X and by Agostino Chigi, 224–5; Leo X’s, 225; for wedding of Maria de’ Medici, 281; in the Palazzo Vecchio, 289; of Cosimo III, 297
Baraballo, Fra, 226–7
Barbadori family, 316
Barbadori, Niccolò, 55, 57, 58
Bardi family, bankers, 39; and the Medici, 43, 87; their chapel in Santa Croce, 313; and the Via de’ Bardi, 314; and the Villa Medici, 318
Bardi, Bartolomeo de’, 36
Bardi, Contessina de’, see Medici, Contessina de’
Bardi, Giovanni de’, 38
Bardi, Niccolò di Betto, 90
Baroncelli, Bernardo Bandini, 135–6, 137, 138, 142
Bartolommeo, Fra, prop. Baccio della Porta (1475–1517), 192, 301 Battles,
Agnadello (1509), 207, 208, 209
Anghiari, (1440), 80, 194
Barga (1437), 80
Fomovo (1495), 195
Imola (1434), 55
Imola (1467), 107
Lepanto (1570), 266, 267
Marignano(1515), 220
Montemurlo(1537), 263
Pa via (1525), 240
Ravenna (1512), 208, 209
Beccadelli, Antonio, Henttaphroditus, 91
Becchi, Gentile, Bishop of Arezzo, 103, 165
Benavieni, Antonio, 107
Benci, Giovanni d’Amerigo, 87, 95
Benedetto da Rovezzano, 321, 323
Bentivoglio family, 65, 209, 222
Bentivogiio, Giovanni, and Lorenzo the Magnificent, 103, 149–50; warns Piero di Cosimo, 105; and capture and recapture of Bologna, 207, 208
Berlinghieri, Jacopo, 49
Bernardino of Siena, St (1380–1444), 23
Bessarion, Johannes, Archbishop of Nicaea (c.1395–1472), 67, 68
Bicci, Neri di, 320
Bisricci, Vespasiano da, 165; and Cosimo Pater Patrice, 39, 73, 74; on Cosimo Paler Patriae, 60, 97–8; and Council of Florence, 66; his tomb, 313
Boboli Gardens, origin of the name, 271; Cosimo I and, 274; Ferdinando I and, 280; Il Mondo Festeggianle in, 289, 328; Ruspanti in, 308; historical note on, 328; Perseus and the Dragon, 330
Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313–75), 278
Bogoli family, 271
Bologna, excommunication of, 45; rumours of plots in, 65; Medici office in, 87; Bishop of, 87; Savonarola a novice in, 179; taken and retaken, 207, 208; Cardinal Giovanni di Lorenzo in, 209; French forces withdraw from, 209; Leo X and Francis I in, 222
Borgia, Cam (1476–1507), 193, 201
Borgia, Roderigo, Cardinal, later Alexander VI, Pope, q.v. 203, 205
Borromeo, Giovanni, 132
Botticelli, Sandro, prop. Alessandro Filipepi (1444–1510), 165, 168; his works, 109–10, 166, 167, 315, 320, 322, 323, 331; designs Giuliano di Piero’s standard, 122; and the Pazzi conspirators, 142; and Lorenzo the Magnificent, 167; cost of his work, 169; and Savonarola, 181; his pictures burned, 192; and the tragedy of Florence, 325; and Michelangelo’s David, 326
Bourbon, Charles, Duke of (1490–1527), 242–3, 344
Bracdolini, Jacopo di Poggio, 136, 139–40
Bracdolini, Poggio, 44, 45–6, 136
Bramante, prop. Donato d’Angelo Lazzari (1444–1514), 228, 229
Bravo, Cecco, 332
Bronzino, Agnolo (1502–72), 274
Brosses, Charles de, 310
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 321
Bninelleschi, Filippo (1377–1446), and bronze doors for the Baptistery, 70; Giovanni di Bicci commissions, 71; and basilica of San Lorenzo, 71–2, 317; and the Cathedral dome, 72, 313; Cosimo Pater Patriae and, 75; Donatello and, 90; and the Pazzi chapel, 131; and the Rotonda di Santa Maria Angeli, 314; and the Ospedale degli Innocenti, 316; and Santo Spirito, 323
Bruni, Leonardo (1369–1444), 44, 46, 47, 211, 313
Bueri, Piccarda, see Medici, Piccarda de’
Buggiano, (Andrea Cavalcanti), 319
Buonnaccorsi, Giuliano, 270–1
Buontalenti, Bernardo, and the Boboli Gardens, 271; and the Villa Pratolino, 276, 330; and the Uffizi palace, 278, 328; and Forte di Belvedere, 280; and Il Rapimento di Cefalo, 281; and the Cathedral façade, 324; and Santa Trinitá, 328; garden of the Villa of Castello, 323, 329; and Cereto Guidi, 330
Burchiello, the barber, 95
Burnet, Gilbert, Bishop of Salisbury, 306
Buti, Lucrezia, 93
Byron, George Gordon, Baron Byron, 325