The Tigress of Forli (55 page)

Ordelaffi, Sinibaldo,
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Ordelaffi family,
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and Orsis' hopes for Forlì,
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left unmentioned during presentation to Council of Forty,
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Orsi, Agamenone,
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Orsi, Andrea,
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Orsi, Checco,
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Orsi, Ludovico,
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Orsi family

and Caterina's strategic thinking in Forlì,
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and Cobelli,
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consequences of Girolamo's murder for (Antonio Orsi),
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and rule over Forlì after Girolamo's murder,
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Orsini, Paolo,
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Orsini, Virgilio,
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Orsini family,
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Ottaviano.
See
Riario, Ottaviano

Ottoman Turks

fear of,
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Otranto captured by,
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Otranto freed from,
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pearl sources dominated by,
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Venice attacked by at time of papal/French invasion,
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Venice's dealings with,
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Pacioli, Luca,
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Palla
(precursor to tennis),
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Pallavicini, Cosimo,
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Palmezzano, Marco,
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Pansechi, Niccolò,
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Pansecho, Ludovico,
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Paolucci family,
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Papal States and papacy

and Forlì's position in Naples- Milan war,
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and Milan,
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and retaliation for harm to Riario children,
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Orsis find asylum in,
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and Salt War,
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sees Caterina as threat to political stability due to Giacomo's influence,
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in triple alliance with France and Venice,
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Paradiso, Il (Caterina's personal retreat in Ravaldino),
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Parma, Andrea da,
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Pasolini, Count Pier Desiderio,
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Passi (suspect in Roffi uprising),
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Paul II Barbo (pope),
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Pavagliotta, Antonio,
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Pavia,
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Charles VIII visits,
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French occupy,
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Giovanni (Caterina's son) besieges,
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hunting in gardens of,
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plague in,
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Pazzi, Francesco de',
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Pazzi, Guglielmo,
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Pazzi, Jacopo de',
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Pazzi conspiracy,
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Botticelli's painting of executions following,
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Pearl necklaces, Caterina receives as presents,
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Peppo, Guido,
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Perugino, Pietro,
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Pesaro,
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Piacenza

and Caterina's journey to Rome,
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and Charles VIII's advance through Italy,
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Piagnoni,
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Piancaldoli castle,
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Piccinino, Alessio,
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Pietà
(Michelangelo statue),
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Pillage, as victorious armies' customary privilege,
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Pinacoteca Civica (Forlì museum),
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Pino III Ordelaffi (ruler of Forlì),
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Pinturicchio,
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Piratello, miracle and shrine of,
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Pisa,
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on Caterina's escape route,
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Florentines fear pope's conquest of,
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Florentines want military supplies from Caterina for war against,
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Ottaviano fights for Florence against,
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in peace terms offered by Florence to French,
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declares independence,
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Cesare Riario as archbishop of,
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Salviati as archbishop of,
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Pius II (pope),
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Pius III Piccolomini (pope),
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Plague, in Pavia,
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See also
Bubonic plague

Plato, and scholars of Medici family,
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Plautus, Titus Maccius, in spectacle staged by Forlì citizens,
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Poison plot

pope accuses Caterina of,
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rumored in death of Gian Galeazzo Sforza,
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Pollaiuolo, Piero del,
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Popolano, Giovanni.
See
Medici Il Popolano, Giovanni de'

Porta Cotogni,
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as Milanese troops' campsite,
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and Roffi conspiracy,
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in siege of Ravaldino,
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Porta Giovia castle,
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Porta San Pietro,
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Primavera, The
(Botticelli),
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Prince, The
(Machiavelli),
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See also
Machiavelli, Niccolò

Pucci, Puccio,
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Purification of the Leper, The
(Botticelli),
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Quartan fever, Caterina struck by,
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Raphael,
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Ravaldino, fortress of,
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bronze memorial to Giacomo Feo in,
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castellan of smitten with Caterina in Florence,
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Caterina gains control of,
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Caterina meets with citizens in,
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as Caterina's residence,
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Caterina fashions home in,
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and conflict after Girolamo's murder,
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Giacomo Feo given control of,
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Tommaso Feo as castellan of,
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under Girolamo,
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and Girolamo's murder

as meeting place,
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Caterina escapes to,
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mosquitoes infest moat of,
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and Lucrezia Mirandola Ordelaffi,
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in portrait of Caterina,
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Rivellini
of,
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siege of,
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see also
Siege of Forlì)

repair of,
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Ravenna,
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Ravenna, archbishop of,
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Raverti, Ambrogio,
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Regency, assumed by widowed mothers,
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See also
Caterina Sforza, Countess of Forlì
AS REGENT AND RULER OF FORLì

Reggio,
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Riario, Bianca (daughter),
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Riario, Caterina.
See
Caterina Sforza, Countess of Forlì

Riario, Cesare,
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with Caterina after Girolamo's murder,
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and Caterina in prison,
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sister Bianca seen as burden for,
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at Caterina's arrival in Florence,
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in Caterina's will,
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church career of,
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and Giacomo's murder

on family outing as scene of murder,
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flees to Denti house,
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in Giacomo's murder aftermath,
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looks to Caterina for money,
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recompensed by Julius II for renouncing Forlì,
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sees Caterina as political liability in attempt to regain Forlì and Imola,
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in Sistine Chapel mural,
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Riario, Francesco ("Sforzino") (son),
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Riario, Galeazzo (son),
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Riario, Giovanni Livio (son),
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Riario, Girolamo,
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accomplices of in Rome,
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and building of new palace,
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character of

arrogant,
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corrupted by power of Rome,
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extortion as habit,
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extravagant,
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greedy and self-serving,
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conspiracies against life of,
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depicted in Sistine Chapel mural,
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in final days and after death of Sixtus IV