Pazzi Conspiracy
April 26, 1478
During High Mass in Florence's cathedral, assassins hired by the Pazzi family and Pope Sixtus IV stabbed Giuliano de Medici to death at the altar. His brother Lorenzo, wounded in the neck, fought his way to the sacristy. Within hours the conspirators were hanging from the Palazzo della Signoria's windows. Florence rallied to the Medici.
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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