The Pazzi
Conspiracy
For those of you who enjoyed
the movie “Hannibal,” aspects of the first half are built around the contest
between Hannibal Lector and an Italian detective surnamed Pazzi. Hannibal Lector identified the detective as a
descendant of the Florentine Pazzi family that had been involved in a plot
against the de’ Medici family, then rulers of Florence. One of the Pazzi conspirators was hanged from
the side of a palazzo; that same fate that would befall Inspector Pazzi at
Lector’s hands.
Today is the anniversary of the
attack upon the de’ Medicis in 1478.
The drawing of the hanged Pazzi
shown in the movie as part of the slide show is a drawing by Leonardo
DaVinci. The Pazzi was not, however,
disemboweled.
For those who may be watching
the Showtime “Borgias” show, the
Pazzi conspiracy is less than a generation before the events being recounted of
the papacy of Alexander VI; he was elected Pope in August, 1492.
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