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Salviati and Francesco de' Pazzi put together a plan to assassinate Lorenzo and Giuliano de' Medici. Cardinal Riario himself remained in Rome. The plan was widely known, Pope Sixtus IV was reported to have said, "I support it — as long as no one is killed." In 2004 it was revealed that Feserico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, a renowned humanist and Condotierre for the Papacy, was deeply embroiled in the conspiracy and had committed himself to position 600 troops outside Florence, waiting for the moment.
On Sunday, 26 April 1478 during High Mass at the Duomo before a crowd of 10,000, Giuliano de' Medici was stabbed 19 times by a gang that included a priest. As he bled to death on the cathedral floor, his brother Lorenzo escaped with serious, but non life-threatening wounds. Lorenzo appeared shortly after, locked safely in the sacristy by the humanist Poliziano. A coordinated attempt to capture the Gonfaloniere and Signoria was thwarted when the archbishop and head of the Salviati clan were trapped in a room whose doors had a hidden latch. The coup failed, and the enraged Florentines seized and killed the conspirators.
WI the Pazzi conspiracy was succesfull and Medicis were overthrown? How is this affects Italy and History? Any thoughts?
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