Girolamo Machiavelli

Girolamo Machiavelli (* 1415 , † July 11, 1460 in Florence ) was a Florentine lawyer and politician .

Life

Girolamo Machiavelli was an ordinary, qualified head of the Florence oligarchy for the first few decades of his life . The upheavals of 1433/34 and the seizure of power by Cosimo de 'Medici initially had no impact on Girolamo's life. In 1452 he was a member of the Balìa, which tried to secure rule .

After the controlled draw of the appointments had been lifted as early as 1455 and the Medici were in a struggle to maintain power, Girolamo Machiavelli rose to head the council opposition in 1458. The contemporary Marco Parenti claims that Girolamo was always an enemy of Cosimo de 'Medici, semper stato inimico di Cosimo .'
Luca Pitti (1398–1472) was related by marriage to the Machiavelli and looked back on centuries of spatial and kinship-related relationships, but was the leading party man of the Medici. He advocated the establishment of the so-called Cento , an assembly of hundred men of the Treumediceischen heads.
In the decision of the summer of 1458, Girolamo Machiavelli lost when he was arrested on August 3rd. After the acceptance of Astorre II Manfredi (1412–1468), the mercenary leader and lord of Faenza , the dispute was decided on August 11 in a parliamento in the Piazza della Signoria in Florence and with the acclamation of a new order obeying the Medici.

Girolamo was exiled. Since he left the place of exile assigned to him, he was declared a rebel, that is, an enemy of the state. Later he met his traitor from the ranks of the petty potentates in the Lunigiana and was extradited to Florence. Since he denounced other citizens under torture, the Medici had a lucky pretext to exile another 25 heads and to prorogate the controlled drawing of offices for another five years.

Girolamo Machiavelli died on July 11, 1460 in the dungeon of his hometown. He was buried in the Church of Santa Croce . The famous Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) came from a different line of the family, but counted the fate of his distant uncle under his family tradition.

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• Manuela Doni Garfagnini: Marco Parenti. Ricorsi storici 1464-1467 . Rome 2001.
• Montevecchi, Alesandro (Ed.): Niccolò Machiavelli. Opere storiche . Vol. 1. Rome 2010, pp. 627f. or 'Istorie fiorentie', VII / 3.

literature

• Nicolai Rubinstein: The Government of Florence under the Medici (1434-1494) . Oxford 1966. pp. 90ff., 130ff. 136.
• Raffaella Zaccaria:  MACHIAVELLI, Girolamo. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 67:  Macchi – Malaspina. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2006, pp. 72-75.

References and comments

1. ↑ Doni Garfagnini, Manuela (ed.): Marco Parenti. Ricordi storici 1464-1467, Rome 2001, p. 115.
2. ↑ Only for the Pitti kinship ties see their family memory in the 'Ricordi' by Buonaccorso Pitti, contained in Branca, Vittore (ed.): Mercanti scrittori, Milan 1986, pp. 352, 360.