Bernardo Bandini Baroncelli (15 January 1420 – 29 December 1479) was an Italian

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and one of the instigators of the Pazzi conspiracy. As the opening stroke of the Pazzi conspiracy,

Giuliano de' Medici Giuliano de' Medici (25 October 1453 – 26 April 1478) was the second son of Piero de' Medici (the Gouty) and Lucrezia Tornabuoni. As co-ruler of Florence, with his brother Lorenzo the Magnificent, he complemented his brother's image as the " ...

was assassinated on

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, 26 April 1478 in the

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, by

Francesco de' Pazzi Francesco de' Pazzi (28 January 1444 – 26 April 1478) was an Italian banker and one of the instigators of the Pazzi conspiracy. On Sunday, 26 April 1478, in an incident known as the Pazzi conspiracy, a group headed by Girolamo Riario, Franc ...

and Baroncelli. Giuliano was killed by a sword wound to the head and was stabbed 19 times. Baroncelli was arrested in

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. Antonio Medici was sent to deliver him from Constantinople. Bandini was hanged on 29 December at the Palazzo del Bargello. Baroncelli was drawn in a macabre sketch by

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in Florence in 1479. With dispassionate integrity, Leonardo had registered the colours of the robes that Baroncelli was wearing when he died in neat

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In popular culture

Baroncelli appears as a

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in Leoncavallo's 1893 opera '' I Medici'' He also appears as a villain and assassination target in the videogame ''

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'', where he is killed by assassin

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* 1420 births 1479 deaths Italian people convicted of murder People executed by Florence People executed by hanging {{Italy-crime-bio-stub