The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici (61 page)

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

Cacdni, Giulio(1550-1618),
281
,
328

Cacdni, Giovanni,
315
,
319

Calabria, Alfonso, Duke of,
later
Alfonso II, King of Naples,
q.v
., and Florence,
148–9
,
150
,
155
; and Duke of Ferrara,
151
; progress of his forces,
152
; in Siena,
159
; and the Turkish invasion,
159
; Maiano and,
167

Calabria, Duchess of,
née
ippolita Sforza,
103
,
153

Camaldoli, Abbey of,
122
,
321

Cambio, Arnolfo di (1232–1301),
313

Cambrai, League of,
207
,
223

Campana, Francesco,
263

Capello, Bianca,
set
Medici, Bianca de’

Capponi family,
316

Capponi, Francesco,
251

Capponi, Neri,
52
,
61
,
82

Capponi, Piero de Gino,
190–1

Carafa, Diomede,
153–4

Carbonc, Lodovico,
96

Cardi, Lodovico,
called
Cigoli (1559–1613),
324

Cardona, Raymond de,
211
,
212
,
213
,
220

Carnivals,
see
Festivals

Castagno, Andrea del,
320

Castellesi, Adriano, Cardinal,
233
,
234
,
238

Catherine de’ Medici, Queen of France,
see
Medici Caterina di Lorenzo de’
(1519–89)

Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England (1485–1536),
247
,
248

Catherine of Siena, St (1347–80),
172
,
278