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PART ONE · IL QUATTROCENTO

I FLORENCE AND THE FLORENTINES ‘ A Florentine who is not a merchant… enjoys no esteem whatever ’ II THE RISE OF THE MEDICI ‘ Always keep out of the public eye ’ III ENEMIES OF THE ALBIZZI ‘ He has emblazoned even the monks’ privies with his balls ’ IV EXILES AND MASTERS ‘ He is King in all but name ’ V ARCHBISHOPS AND ARCHITECTS ‘ Never shall I be able to give God enough to set him down in my books as a debtor ’ VI WAR AND PEACE ‘ Rencine? Rencine? Where is Rencine? ’ VII ARTISTS AND MOURNERS ‘ Too large a house now for so small a family ’

PART TWO · 1464–1492

VIII PIERO THE GOUTY ‘ When it is a matter of acquiring worthy or strange objects he does not look at the price ’ IX THE YOUNG LORENZO ‘ A naturally joyful nature ’ X THE POPE AND THE PAZZI ‘ Do what you wish provided there be no killing ’ XI THE SAVIOUR OF FLORENCE ‘ That son of iniquity and foster-child of perdition ’ XII THE NEEDLE OF THE ITALIAN COMPASS ‘ If Florence was to have a tyrant, she could never have found a better or more delightful one ’ XIII LORENZO: PATRON, COLLECTOR AND POET ‘ He had a full understanding of such and all other things ’

PART THREE · 1492–1537

XIV PIERO DI LORENZO DE’ MEDICI AND THE FRIDA FROM FERRARA ‘ Behold! It is the Lord God who is leading on these armies ’ XV THE EXCOMMUNICANT ‘ Someone has his seat in Hell already ’ XVI RETURN OF THE MEDICI ‘ The town of Prato was sacked, not without some bloodshed ’ XVII ‘PAPA LEONE!’ ‘ God has given us the Papacy. Let us enjoy it! ’ XVIII THE MARCH ON ROME ‘ To teach the Pope a lesson he would never forget ’ XIX SIEGE AND MURDER ‘ Mild measures are useless ’

PART FOUR · 1537–1743

XX DUKE COSIMO I ‘ There is little joy to be discerned in the faces of the people ’ XXI THE HEIRS OF COSIMO ‘ Such entertainments have never been seen before ’ XXII FERDINANDO II AND THE FRENCH PRINCESS ‘ It is her usual conceit to say that she has married beneath her ’ XXIII COSIMO III AND THE GRAND PRINCE FERDINANDO b‘ Eighteen years is enough. It will serve out my time ’ XXIV THE LAST OF THE MEDICI ‘ Florence is much sunk from what it was ’ NOTES ON BUILDINGS AND WORKS OF ART THE PRINCIPAL MEDICI PORTRAITS, BUSTS AND STATUES IN FLORENCE BIBLIOGRAPHY GENEALOGICAL TABLES INDEX

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