Book presentation
The poet Angelo Poliziano was standing just a few metres away when, on 26 April 1478, the twenty-five-year-old Giuliano de' Medici was murdered with nineteen knife wounds during mass in Florence Cathedral.
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Titelbild des Kataloges sowie der Autor Tobias Roth
He wrote an account of his experiences and the course of events surrounding the conspiracy, which is also inextricably linked to the name of the Pazzi family through this text. By the summer, Poliziano's Short Account of the Pazzi Conspiracy had already been printed in two places and appeared in both Rome and Florence. It shaped the view of contemporaries and subsequent centuries.
Even though the poet was an eyewitness, his account is not the whole truth: Poliziano provides the official Medici version of events, as he was a close confidant of Lorenzo de' Medici, educated his children and was at the forefront of Florence's literary scene.
Author, translator and Renaissance expert Tobias Roth introduces us to this milieu, presents the poet Angelo Poliziano and his account of the Pazzi conspiracy, and reads from his translation of the Short Account, which appeared in his book Welt der Renaissance: Florenz 2024 (World of the Renaissance: Florence 2024). The exhibition thus reveals, in a harmony of literature and art, the interplay of politics and culture that characterised the rule of the Medici and the entire Renaissance.
The event is free of charge after purchasing a ticket.
IN GERMAN
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Dates
January 2026
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