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La congiura dei Pazzi: I documenti del conflitto fra Lorenzo de' Medici e Sisto IV. Le bolle di scomunica, la "Florentina synodus," e la "Dissentio" insorta tra la Santità del Papa e i Fiorentini. Edizione critica e commento. Edited by Tobias Daniels. [Studi di Storia e Documentazione Storica.] (Florence: EDIFIR Edizioni Firenze. 2013. Pp. 206. euro18,00 paperback. ISBN 978-88-7970-649-0.)
"The pen is mightier than the sword." So spoke Cardinal Richelieu's character in Edward Bulwer Lytton's popular 1839 play Richelieu.; Or the Conspiracy. The playwright could just as easily have written that line about the hostile propaganda cam- paigns launched between Pope Sixtus IV and the Florentines that erupted following the Pazzi Conspiracy. Tobias Daniels's critical edition and comment brings together for the first time Sixtus IVs three bulls of excommunication against Lorenzo de' Medici and his Florentine supporters; the Florentina Synodus, a Florentine defense against them written by Gentile Becchi; and...