After the failure of this plot, the organizer escaped, was captured, returned to Florence, was tortured, hung, buried, exhumed, thrown into a ditch, dragged through the streets, had his rotting head used as a door knocker, thrown into the Arno, fished out by children, hung from a tree, flogged, and then thrown back into the Arno. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this conspiracy named for the family that organized it and targeted the Medicis.
ANSWER: Pazzi conspiracy [accept Congiura dei Pazzi]
[10e] The main impetus of the Pazzi conspiracy was the Medicis’ refusal to fund land used to trade between Rome and this republic. This merchant republic at the time was ruled by many doges.
ANSWER: Most Serene Republic of Venice [accept La Serenìssima]
[10h] The Pazzi conspiracy was implicitly sanctioned by a pope from this family, Sixtus IV. A member of this family captured Mirandola and formed an alliance that was defeated at the Battle of Marignano.
ANSWER: Della Rovere
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