Pazzi conspiracy

Pazzi conspiracy

Commemorative medal by Bertoldo di Giovanni, 1478, showing the assassination attempt (Staatliche Münzsammlung, Munich)
Native name	Congiura dei Pazzi
Date	26 April 1478, Easter Sunday
Location	Duomo of Florence
Also known as	Pazzi plot
Type	Assassination attempt
Organised by	Pope Sixtus IV Girolamo Riario Francesco Salviati Francesco de' Pazzi
Participants	Bernardo Bandini dei Baroncelli Jacopo de' Pazzi Antonio Maffei da Volterra Stefano da Bagnone
Outcome	Partial failure
Deaths	Giuliano de' Medici Francesco Nori
Non-fatal injuries	Lorenzo de' Medici, wounded
Convictions	About 80
Sentence	Execution

The Pazzi conspiracy (Italian: Congiura dei Pazzi) was a failed plot by members of the Pazzi family and others to displace the Medici family as rulers of Renaissance Florence.

On 26 April 1478 there was an attempt to assassinate Lorenzo de' Medici and his brother Giuliano. Lorenzo was wounded but survived; Giuliano was killed.

In the aftermath of the plot many of the conspirators – and others accused of being conspirators – were executed, some by hanging from the windows of the Palazzo della Signoria; there were some eighty executions in all. The surviving Pazzi family members were banished from Florence.