Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time : comprising the development of social institutions and the story of all nations . LORENZO THE MAONIFICENT. At this Sixtus IV. became deeply incensed athis foreign minister, and henceforth strovewith all his power to break the influence of 44 UNIVERSAL HISTORY.—THE MODERN WORLD. the Medici in Italy. Tiie Pope is accused ofhaving instigated a conspiracy for the purposeof procuring the assassination of Lorenzo andhis brother (iiuliano.
Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time : comprising the development of social institutions and the story of all nations . LORENZO THE MAONIFICENT. At this Sixtus IV. became deeply incensed athis foreign minister, and henceforth strovewith all his power to break the influence of 44 UNIVERSAL HISTORY.—THE MODERN WORLD. the Medici in Italy. Tiie Pope is accused ofhaving instigated a conspiracy for the purposeof procuring the assassination of Lorenzo andhis brother (iiuliano. The date of the crime was set for the26th of April, 147iS. It was agreed that onthat day, at the signal of the elevation of was rescued by his friends. The members ofthe Pazzi family were seized and punished fortheir crime. A feud broke out between thepapal party and the adherents of the Medici,which continued to agitate the states of Italyuntil the close of the century. Nor was theill-feeling of the parties allayed until a mem-. ATTEJirTED ASSASSINATION OF THE MEDICLDrawn by tonrml Enuisch. the H3:^t in the Church of the fJeparata, thetwo brothers should he struck down head conspirator was Francesco de Pazzi,who to be assisted by the jiriests. At theprecoiicertcd signal the villainous attack wasmade. Giuliano was instantly killed, butLorenzo .lefended himself with such valorthat his tssailants were driven back until he her of the family of the IMedici, Giovanni,was raised to the papal chair with the titleof Leo X. Besides the great municipal Republics ofVenice, lililan, Genoa, Pisa, and Florence,many other Italian cities ran a similar, thoughless conspicuous, course of development. Tosuch an extent was this tendency present in PEOPLE AND KINGS.—FRANCE IN 14TH AND 15TH CENTURIES. 45 the history of Mediseval Italy that the Feudal-System never flourished iu the urban activities were too strong to yieldto the tyranny of baronial masters. As ageneral
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