Step into the shadows of history’s most audacious assassination attempt, beginning beneath Brunelleschi’s impossible dome where architectural genius meets political intrigue. Within a mere 450 meters of Florence’s sacred heart, witness how the 1478 Pazzi Conspiracy transformed an Easter Sunday mass into Europe’s bloodiest power struggle, forever altering banking, politics, and art.
Your exclusive 3-hour journey includes VIP access to the Duomo’s restricted Old Sacristy, where Lorenzo the Magnificent escaped death, and where a live actor will perform the chilling confession letter of the failed assassin. Led by the foremost Medici expert, this intimate encounter with power, betrayal, and survival culminates with exclusive access to Palazzo Vecchio’s most guarded secrets and the untold stories. Discover how the Medici banking empire, birthed from humble “banco” benches, revolutionized global finance, why Florence became Europe’s financial capital, and how the conspiracy’s failure launched the greatest artistic renaissance in history. From Giuliano de’ Medici’s slicing into the first Florentine steak to the defenestration of conspirators as citywide warnings, experience the raw human drama that shaped our modern world.
Marcello Simonetta (Yale Ph.D.) is a famed historian and master storyteller, author of “The Montefeltro Conspiracy” (Doubleday) and several books on the Medici and Machiavelli. He has made astonishing discoveries in archives and knows how to make history alive (and deadly) again.
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