Commentary on the Pazzi Conspiracy

...everything succeeds according to his wishes. Furthermore, he was a bloodthirsty man, and one who, while he revolved any matter in his mind, would pursue it with dispatch, being restrained by no respect for honesty, religion, fame, or reputation. Jac. Salviatus Furthermore, Jacopo Salviati was a man who was extremely adept at capturing the hearts of men; he was accustomed to smile into everyone’s face, and he would act in a manner intent upon lavish entertainment, brothels, and carousing. Yet, in matters of skilled trade, he was considered sharp and skillful. Among these, there was also a third, Jacopo, Jac. Poggii the son of that most eloquent man, Poggio. He, both because of the straits of his family estate and the heavy debt he had accumulated, and because of a certain innate vanity, was desirous of revolutionary changes. His primary talent lay in slandering, in which he recalled his father, a man most prone to slander. He was always either attacking princes, or railing against the lives of men without any discrimination, or assailing the writings of any learned man; he spared no one. He himself was wonderfully proud because of his vast memory of histories and his great fluency of speech. He would inflict these upon all circles and gatherings to the point of boring his listeners. He had squandered in a few years the entire patrimony that had fallen to him from his paternal inheritance. Wherefore, forced by destitution, he had surrendered himself entirely to the Pazzi and Salviati. He was, in fact, what he had always been to any buyer: for sale. Among these was a fourth, Jacopo, the brother of the Archbishop, a man entirely obscure and sordid. Furthermore, Bernardo Bandini, a lost man, bold and fearless, whom his own squandered family estate drove headlong toward every kind of wickedness. These were the seven citizens who undertook the crime, to whom was added Johannes Baptista from the town of Monte Sicco,