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Pazzi family (Florentine political and noble family, from 13th century)
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Note: Powerful political family in Florence, Italy. They were an ancient, noble Tuscan family who had given up their titles so that members could be elected to public office in republican Florence. Their main trade during the 15th century was banking. They are now infamously linked to the Pazzi conspiracy, a plot resulting in the assassination of Giuliano de' Medici and the simultaneous attempted murder of his brother, Lorenzo de' Medici on 26 April 1478. The family name was likely derived from Pazzo, ("pazzo" is Italian for "the madman"), their ancestor who was one of the first soldiers over the walls in the Siege of Jerusalem during the First Crusade, and who brought away with him and returned to Florence a stone from the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher. Afterwards, the Pazzi family were players in the annual important Easter festivities of Florence, including striking a light from this stone on Holy Saturday when all fires in the city were extinguished, from which the altar light of the Duomo would be annually rekindled, and from it all the hearth fires of Florence. The following day, Easter, a dove-shaped rocket would slide on a wire from above the high altar to an oxcart loaded with fireworks in the piazza. From the fireworks' explosion (the "scoppio del carroor," cart of the holy fire), sparks would be carried to the city's hearths. |
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Pazzi, Antonio |
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(Italian painter, abbot, 1706-after 1768) [500017756] |
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Pazzi, Francesco de' |
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(Italian patron, active 14th century) [500098328] |
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Pazzi, Oretta |
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(Italian patron, born 1437) [500069203] |
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Pazzi, Renato de' |
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(Italian politician, 1442-1478) [500069204] |
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Pazzi, Simone de' |
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(Italian noble, 14th century) [500060986] |
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(Florentine political and noble family, from 13th century) ..... [Grove Art Preferred]
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