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- Piero di Lorenzo de’ Medici and the Crisis of Renaissance Italy
- Piero di Lorenzo de’ Medici and the Crisis of Renaissance Italy
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I The Early Years
- Part II Between Republicanism and Princely Rule
- Part III Piero in Power
- Part IV Piero in Exile
- 16 Perambulating Italy, 1494–1497
- 17 ‘Contamination in the Labyrinth’
- 18 The Last Years, 1498–1503
- 19 Piero’s Burial and Legacy
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
17 - ‘Contamination in the Labyrinth’
Networking in Exile
from Part IV - Piero in Exile
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 December 2019
- Piero di Lorenzo de’ Medici and the Crisis of Renaissance Italy
- Piero di Lorenzo de’ Medici and the Crisis of Renaissance Italy
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I The Early Years
- Part II Between Republicanism and Princely Rule
- Part III Piero in Power
- Part IV Piero in Exile
- 16 Perambulating Italy, 1494–1497
- 17 ‘Contamination in the Labyrinth’
- 18 The Last Years, 1498–1503
- 19 Piero’s Burial and Legacy
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Lamberto dell’Antella’s confession and the execution of five leading Florentines in August 1497 marked a watershed in Piero’s years of exile. Before that, Piero’s friends met in Florence to discuss plans to bring him back to Florence, with Lamberto as a go-between carrying messages to and fro. In the early years of his exile, Piero had described himself in letters to the government and to his cousins as a good citizen who only wanted to be treated fairly and allowed to return home. But after 1497 everyone was afraid of contagion and we have to rely on the reports of ambassadors, merchants and spies to discover his movements. They show how high the stakes were in a conflict that pitted the leading families of Florence against each other.
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- Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici and the Crisis of Renaissance Italy , pp. 254 - 270Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020