THE TRAGEDIES OF THE MEDICI    
      By Edgcumbe Staley    
      Author Of “The Guilds Of Florence,” “Raphael,” “Fra Angelico,” Etc.    

 
 
      TO THE MEMORY OF MY FATHER THOMAS STALEY    

 

 
CONTENTS
 PREFACE 
 INTRODUCTION 
 THE TRAGEDIES OF THE MEDICI 
 CHAPTER I — The Pazzi Conspiracy      — Lorenzo, “Il Magnifico” — Giuliano, “Il Pensieroso”.      
 CHAPTER II — The First Tyrannicide      — Ippolito, “Il Cardinale” — Alessandro, “Il Negro”       — Lorenzino, “Il Terribile”. 
 CHAPTER III — A Father’s Vengeance      — Maria, Giovanni, and Garzia de’ Medici — Malatesta de’      Malatesti 
 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 Tore
 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. 
 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. 
 A SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY 
 INDEX 


 




      PREFACE    
      When Alexandre Dumas wrote his Crimes of the Borgias—and      other “Crimes”—he fully intended to compile a companion volume,      treating of episodes in the great family of the Medici. With this project      in view, he collected much material, and actually published, tentatively,      two interesting brochures: Une Année à Florence—in 1841, and      Les Galeries de Florence—in 1842.    
      Nothing, however, came of his more ambitious “idea,” and, until to-day, no      one has taken in hand to write The Tragedies of the Medici. My      attention was first directed to the omission during the preparation of my      Guilds of Florence, published in 1906; and I determined to address      myself to the forging of that lurid link in the catena of Florentine      romance.    
      In the following pages my readers will see that I have entirely departed      from the conventional conceits of the ordinary historian. I have sought to      set out the whole truth—not a garbled version—whilst I have      fearlessly added decorative features where facts were absent or were too      prosaic.    
      The short “Introduction,” dealing with the rise and progress of the house      of Medici, will be useful to my public, and the “Chart of the Tra                        
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