Jacopo de' Pazzi (1423 - 26 April 1478) became head of the Pazzi in 1464. He, his nephew

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, and his brother Renato were executed after the Pazzi conspiracy on 26 April 1478. The conspiracy was proposed in Montughi, at Jacopo Pazzi's villa, and it was planned to kill Lorenzo and

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and take over the government of Florence. After the conspiracy, Jacopo went home and he found Francesco with a wound in one leg, possibly self-inflicted. With 100 armed men, Jacopo ran through the streets crying "Liberty!", but when Francesco was dragged from his bed and hanged, Jacopo escaped from Florence. In the village of Castagno, he was recognised and sent back to Florence, where he was tortured and hanged next to the decomposing body of Francesco Salviati. After being buried at Santa Croce, his body was dug up, thrown in a ditch, dragged through the streets, and propped up at the door of the Palazzo Pazzi, where his head was mockingly used as a door knocker. After that, his body was thrown into the

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, where it was retrieved by children, hung from a willow tree, flogged, and thrown back into the river. Stefano di Ser Niccolo da Bagnone served as a

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to Jacopo and

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to his daughter Caterina. Palazzo Pazzi was commissioned by Jacopo between 1462 and 1472.

In popular culture

In the second season of '' Medici: Masters of Florence'',

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appeared as Jacopo de' Pazzi. He also appeared in the video game ''

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'', where he is killed by Rodrigo Borgia for failing to dispose of the Medici.

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* * {{cite book , first1=Benjamin G. , last1=Kohl , first2=Ronald Gene , last2=Witt , first3=Elizabeth B. , last3=Welles , title=The Earthly Republic: Italian Humanists on Government and Society , url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cMDWfVIdW9cC , publisher=

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, year=1978 , pages=337 , isbn=9780812210972 , chapter=The Pazzi Conspiracy , chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cMDWfVIdW9cC&pg=PA305 , editor-last=Poliziano , editor-first=Angelo , editor-link=Angelo Poliziano 1423 births 1478 deaths Pazzi family People executed by Florence Italian bankers 15th-century Italian businesspeople People executed by hanging