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050	0	0	_aDG737.9 _b.S56 2008
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100	1		_aSimonetta, Marcello _d, 1968-
245	1	4	_aThe Montefeltro conspiracy _b: a Renaissance mystery decoded _c/ Marcello Simonetta
250			_a1st ed
260			_aNew York _b: Doubleday _c, c2008.
300			_axv, 251 p. _b: ill., map _c; 25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 217-238) and index.
520			_aThe Italian Renaissance is remembered as much for intrigue as it is for art, with papal politics and infighting among Italy's many city-states. The attempted assassination of the Medici brothers in Florence in 1478 is one of the best-known examples of the machinations of the age. While the assailants were the Medici's rivals, the Pazzi family, questions have always lingered about who really orchestrated the attack. Five centuries later, Marcello Simonetta, working in a private archive in Italy, stumbled upon a coded letter written by Federico da Montefeltro, the Duke of Urbino, to Pope Sixtus IV, containing proof of a power grab by the Pope for control of Florence. Montefeltro, long believed a close friend of Lorenzo de Medici, was in fact conspiring with the Pope to unseat the Medici. Their failure changed the course of Italian and papal history.--From publisher description.
600	1	0	_aMedici, Giuliano de' _d, 1453-1478
600	1	0	_aMedici, Lorenzo de' _d, 1449-1492
600		0	_aSixtus _bIV _c, Pope _d(, 1414-1484)
600	0	0	_aFrederico, da Monte Feltro, Duke of Urbino _d, 1422-1482
600	1	0	_aBotticelli, Sandro _d, 1444 or 5 -1510
650		0	_aPazzi Conspiracy, 1478
650		0	_aCryptography
651		0	_aItaly _x--History _y--15th century
942			_cMO
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