The Tragedies of the Medici
by Edgcumbe Staley
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About this eBook
- Author
- Staley, Edgcumbe, 1845-1903
- Credits
- Etext produced by Charles Aldarondo, Linda Cantoni and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team HTML file produced by David Widger
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DG: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Italy, Vatican City, Malta
- Subject
- Medici, House of
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 10877
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10877
- Release Date
- January 1, 2004
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE TRAGEDIES OF THE MEDICI
- 2.By Edgcumbe Staley — Author Of “The Guilds Of Florence,” “Raphael,” “Fra Angelico,” Etc. — TO THE MEMORY OF MY FATHER THOMAS STALEY
- 3.PREFACE — EDGCUMBE STALE
- 4.INTRODUCTION
- 5.THE TRAGEDIES OF THE MEDICI
- 6.CHAPTER I — The Pazzi Conspiracy — Lorenzo, “ Il Magnifico ” — Giuliano, “ Il Pensieroso ”.
- 7.CHAPTER II — The First Tyrannicide — Ippolito, “ Il Cardinale ” — Alessandro, “ Il Negro ” — Lorenzino, “ Il Terribile ”.
- 8.CHAPTER III — A Father’s Vengeance — Maria, Giovanni, and Garzia de’Medici — Malatesta de’ Malatesti
- 9.CHAPTER IV — Three Murdered Princesses —Lucrezia, Duchess of Ferrara and Creole de’ Contrari — Eleanora Garzia, wife of Piero de Medici, Alessandro Gaci, and Bernardino degl’ Antinori — Isabella, Duchess of Bracciano — Troilo d’Orsini and Lelio Torello.
- 10.CHAPTER V — True and False Lovers — Francesco, “ Il Virtuoso ” — Bianca Cappello, “ La Figlia di Venezia ” — Pietro Buonaventuri — Cassandra de’Borghiani — Pellegrina Buonaventuri, wife of Ulisse Bentivoglio — Antonio Riario.
- 11.CHAPTER VI — Pathetic Victims of Fateful Passion — Eleanora degli Albizzi and Sforza Almeni — Cammilla de’ Martelli — Virginia de’ Medici e d’Este — Cardinal Ferdinando de’ Medici.
- 12.A SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY
- 13.INDEX
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