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Authors: Christopher Hibbert
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Museo dell’ Opera del Duomo,
320
Museo Home,
313
Museo Nazionale,
313
Museo Nazionale di Storia della Scienza,
331
PaUavicini collection, Rome,
325
Uffizi,
look under
Florence
Naples and Sicily, Kingdom of, strife in,
27–8
; Sforza a
condottien
for,
81
; Florentines expelled from,
83
; France and,
84
,
183
,
186
; declares war on Florence and Milan,
84
; and Florence,
106
,
150
,
152
,
155
; Orsini estates in,
116
; Lorenzo the Magnificent’s mission to,
152–5
; Sixtus IV and,
159
; Charles Vm in,
193
; Spain and,
208
; Leo X’s plans for,
219
; Francis I and,
222
Napoleon I, Emperor of France,
330
Nasi, Bartolommea dei,
146
Nemours, Duchess of,
see
Philiberte of Savoy, Princess
Nemours, Duke of,
see
Medici, Giuliano di Lorenzo de’
Niccoli, Niccolò, his personality and interests,
44–5
; and Bractiolini,
45
,
46
; Bruni disapproves of,
46
; and Traversari,
47
; and Filelfo,
47
,
48
; his books,
69
; and Dante’s poetry,
171
Nocera, Bishop of,
244
Orcagna, Andrea,
prop
. Andrea di Cione (
c
. 1308–68),
314
Orléans, Henri de Valois, Duke of,
later
Henry II, King of France (1519–59), his marriage,
252
Orsanmichele, church of, commerce in the neighbourhood of,
20
; Ghiberri’s
St Matthew
for,
73
,
317
; Donatello’s work commissioned for,
90
; historical note on,
312
; Ghiberti’s bronzes in,
317
Orsini, Alfonsina,
see
Medici, Alfonsina de’
Orsini, Clarice,
see
Medici, Clarice de’
Orsini, Isabella,
née
Medici, Isabella di Cosimo de’,
269
,
273
,
277
Orsini, Jacopo,
114
Orsini, Paolo,
184
Orsini, Rinaldo, Archbishop of Florence,
130
Orsini, Troilo,
277
Orvieto, episcopal palace of,
247
Pageants,
see
Festivals
Palazzi,
Alessandri,
117
Alto viti,
314
Antinori,
330
Capponi,
313
Corsini,
314
Davanzati,
313
degli Acciaiuoli,
315
della Signoria (
taler renamed
Palazzo Vecchio,
a.v
.), Cosimo
Pater Patriot
in,
19
,
49
,
51
,
58
,
83
;
Alberghettino
,
15
,
19
,
200
;
Priori
live in,
26
; the
Vacea
,
27
,
50
,
57
,
139
,
186
,
254
; Albizzi plans to attack,
55–6
; Soderini at,
104
; and festival of St John the Baptist,
120
; Princess Heonora of Naples at,
121
; and the Pazzi conspiracy,
138–40
,
141
; Piero di Lorenzo at,
186
; the bonfire of vanities opposite,
192
; celebrations for the election of Leo X,
218
; re-named,
257
; historical note on,
312
; Donatello’s works in,
318
; Michelangelo’s
David
in front of,
326
Ferranti,
66
Guadagni,
315
Guicciardini,
315
Martelli,
57
Medici, building of,
75–6
; courtyard of,
90
; Donatello,
91–2
; Filippo Lippi,
93
; Delia Robbia,
108
; Uccello,
108
; Pollaiuolo,
108
; Botticelli,
109
; Gozzoli,
110
; Lorenzo the Magnificent’* wedding celebrations,
117–18
; Princess Eleonora
of Naples entertained at,
121
; and the Pazzi Conspiracy,
135
,
136
; Michelangelo at,
166
; plundered,
187
; Charles VIII at,
190
; Giovanni di Lorenzo born in,
202
; celebrations for the election of Leo X,
218
; council meetings in,
220
; Duke of Nemours dying in,
223
; picture of Clement VII on facade of,
249
; murder in,
269
; Cosimo I taken ill at,
273
; Medici shield on,
313
; Medici Library kept at,
316
; historical note on,
317–18
Mediri-Riccardi,
318
Pazzi-Quaratesi,
321
Pitti,
104
,
274
; grandiose,
76
; the Ducal Palace,
271
; Cosimo I dies in,
273
; Ferdinando I and,
280
; Cosimo II extends,
282
; wine sold at,
284
;
Del Cimento
meets at,
284
; Ferdinando II extends,
285
; Sala della Stufa. 285; the collection of ivories,
286
; Marguerite-Louise at,
291
; Grand Duke Gian Gastone dies at,
309
; Electress Palatine at,
309
; historical note on,
328
; murals in,
332
Pucci,
315
Spini-Ferroni,
314
Toraabuoni,
102
Vecchio (
formerly
Palazzo della Signoria,
q.v
.),
274
; the
Palleschi
at,
257
; the Ducal Palace,
269
; decoration of the courtyard,
275
; laboratory of Duke Francesco in,
278
; Ferdinand I’s banquet in,
281
; historical note on,
312
; the fountain and murals at,
330
Palmieri, Matteo,
28
Panciaticchi, Andrea,
145
Papacy, the, the ‘great schism’,
34
; and the Medici bank,
33
,
36
,
37
,
88
,
89
; and the Eastern Church,
67
; Sforza a
condottiere
for,
81
; and the French invasion of Italy,
186
; Leo X enjoys,
218
; a pro-Medici Sacred College,
235
Papal States, near-anarchy in,
27
; Bologna and,
65
; alum deposits in,
89
; and the French army,
184
; Urbino becomes part of,
285
Parentucelli, Tommaso, Bishop of Bologna,
later
Pope Nicholas V.,
q.v
.,
87
,
88
Parma, Duke of,
see
Farnese, Ottavio
Parmigianino,
prop
. Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola (1303–40),
300
Pasquini, Bernardo (1637–1710),
300
Passerini, Cardinal Silvio,
248
Patch, Thomas,
325
Pavia, Lazarodi,
173
Pazzi family, their history,
131
; after the
Pazzi, Andrea de,’
131
Pazzi, Bianca,
nit
Medici, Bianca di Piero de’,
102
Pazzi, Francesco de’, and Pazzi Conspiracy,
131
,
132
,
135
,
137
; executed,
140
Pazzi, Pazzo de’,
131
Pazzi, Piero di Messer Andrea de’,
131
Penni, Gian-Francesco,
240
Petraia, castle of,
280
Petrarch, Francesco Petrarca (1304–74),
227
Petrucci, Borghese,
232
Petrucci, Cesare,
138–9
Philibert, Prince of Orange,
see
Orange, Prince of
Philip V, King of Spain (1683–1746),
305
Piccolomini, Aeneas Silvius,
later
Pope Pius II,
q.v
., on Cosimo di Giovanni,
63
; on Parentucelli,
later
Nicholas V,
88
Pico della Mirandola, Count Giovanni (1463–94),
164–5
,
174
,
181
,
185