Girolamo Riario (1443 - April 14, 1488) was Lord of Imola and Forlì in the 15th century. Events 43 BC - Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar 's assassin Decimus Junius Brutus in Imola ( Iômla in the local dialect is a town Comune in the Province of Bologna, located on the Santerno river in the Emilia-Romagna Forlì ( Latin: Forum Livii) is a Comune and city in Emilia-Romagna, Italy famed as the birthplace of the great painter Melozzo da Forlì
Biography
Born in Savona, Riario was the nephew of Pope Sixtus IV, who granted him the seignory of Imola, as a dowry for his marriage with Caterina Sforza (daughter of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan) in 1473. This article is about the Italian city For the small town of Savona Canada please see Savona British Columbia, or the village in the USA, see Savona Pope Sixtus IV ( July 21, 1414 &ndash August 12, 1484) born Francesco Della Rovere, was Pope from 1471 to 1484 Imola ( Iômla in the local dialect is a town Comune in the Province of Bologna, located on the Santerno river in the Emilia-Romagna A dowry (also known as trousseau or tocher) is the money goods or estate that a woman brings to her soon to be husband in marriage Caterina Sforza (1463 &ndash May 10, 1509) countess of Forlì, was an illegitimate daughter of Galeazzo Maria Sforza and Lucrecia Landriani Galeazzo Maria Sforza ( January 24, 1444 &ndash December 26, 1476) was Duke of Milan from 1466 until his death The Duchy of Milan was a state in northern Italy from 1394 to 1797
Four years later, just after the marriage had been celebrated, Girolamo took control of Forlì, ousting the Ordelaffi. Forlì ( Latin: Forum Livii) is a Comune and city in Emilia-Romagna, Italy famed as the birthplace of the great painter Melozzo da Forlì The Ordelaffi were a family of Italian Condottieri and rulers of Forlì in the Late Middle Ages and early Renaissance.
In 1478 he was one of the plotters behind the "Pazzi conspiracy," a plot to assassinate two promininent members of the Medici family in Florence, 1478. The Pazzi family were Tuscan nobles who were Bankers in Florence in the 14th century AssassiNation is the sixth album by Krisiun, released in 2006 on Century Media. Florence ( Italian: Firenze Florentia and Fiorenza) is the Capital City of the Italian region of Tuscany In addition to conspiring, he was an intended beneficiary, once Lorenzo and Giuliano de' Medici had been killed. Lorenzo de' Medici (January 1 1449 &ndash 9 April 1492 was an Italian statesman and de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic during the Italian Renaissance In 1484, after the death of Sixtus IV, Catherine briefly occupied Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome on his behalf. For the town with the same name see Castel Sant'Angelo (RI The Mausoleum of Hadrian, usually known as the Castel Sant'Angelo, is a towering
Riario promoted several further plots against the Medici, but they all failed. In 1488 he was the last of the main Pazzi conspirators left alive, and was himself assassinated in a conspiracy led by two members of the Orsi family from Forlì, supposedly over a financial dispute. The Pazzi family were Tuscan nobles who were Bankers in Florence in the 14th century Orsi is a surname and may refer to Adolfo Orsi Clodomil Orsi Fernando Orsi Giuseppe Agostino On April 14, Checco and Ludovico Orsi entered the government palace, and one of them attacked Riario with a sword. Despite the presence of the Count's guards, a total of nine assassins slashed Riario to death, eventually flinging his corpse into a local piazza, where a crowd gathered in support of the assassins. The assassins then proceeded to loot the palace.
Although assassinations were not altogether uncommon in Renaissance Florence, they still had repercussions. The Italian Renaissance began the opening phase of the Renaissance, a period of great cultural change and achievement in Europe that spanned the period from the end of the 14th Despite writing to Lorenzo de' Medici, who no doubt approved of the result of the assassination, they received no written support by the Medici family. Support, both military and popular, eventually sided with Riario's widow, and the Orsi brothers fled, taking what they could with them. Their remaining assets and family were soon destroyed by angry mobs.
Riario's body had been recovered from the piazza by a local friar, and once Riario's widow proved vindicated, she had the body cleaned up and laid in state for three days in the church of San Francesco.
References
- Martines, Lauro (2003). April Blood: Florence and the Plot Against the Medici. Oxford UP.
| Preceded by Taddeo Manfredi |
Lord of Imola 1474–1488 |
Succeeded by Caterina Sforza |
| Preceded by Francesco V Ordelaffi |
Lord of Forlì 1480–1488 |
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