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Francesco Salviati Riario was the

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, the reason for his execution after the failure of the plot (26 April 1478).

Biography

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(to whom Pope Sixtus IV had re-awarded the papal banking contract after taking it away from the Medici), he was also related by marriage to the Pazzi, Medici, Vettori, and other powerful families. Orphaned at a young age, Salviati was educated as a

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but vied to succeed in the church, knowing he could not rise to power in the family after losing his father. Pro-Medici sources paint Salviati as a flatterer and gambler who lusted for the power that could be attained through church favour. In 1464, Salviati moved to

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to attach himself to Francesco della Rovere – who later became Pope Sixtus IV – and his nephews,

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and

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. This paid off in his appointment as archbishop. The

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opposed his appointment as archbishop and so in spring 1478, he sent to Florence his nephew

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to lure both Lorenzo and

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to the

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for assassination in the Pazzi conspiracy, and invited him to a

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at the Duomo at which the assassination would take place. When the bell that was rung during the elevation rang, Salviati was to go to the

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, kill the

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Petrucci and take possession of the Palazzo della Signoria, whilst the main killing occurred in the cathedral, but on arriving there he was arrested by Petrucci and within an hour had been hanged by a lynch mob from the window of the

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. Salviati's death at the hands of the Florentines was a key factor of the

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placed upon Florence and the ensuing two years war with the Papacy.

In popular culture

In ''

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'', which contains a fictional version of the conspiracy, Salviati had merely led Pazzi-allied troops into Florence and was able to flee to his villa in the Tuscan countryside (an unfortunate farmer being hanged in his place), only to be hunted down and slain in 1479 by the

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. He appears in the second season of '' Medici: Masters of Florence'', played by Jacob Fortune-Lloyd.

References

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