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Bianca was a daughter of Piero di Cosimo de' Medici and Lucrezia Tornabuoni.[4] In 1459, she married Guglielmo de' Pazzi,[5] who was a childhood friend of her brother, Lorenzo de' Medici.[6] This alliance was intended to help resolve the animosity between the families, but it was not successful in that regard as Machiavelli noted in his Florentine Histories.[7] Their first child, Antonio, was born in 1460.[8] The marriage agreement included a significant reduction in taxes imposed on the Pazzi family.[9] In the aftermath of the Pazzi conspiracy of 1478, Bianca's marriage significantly softened Lorenzo's wrath towards Guglielmo, who was only put under house arrest for a time, while his male relatives were exiled or executed;[10] his daughters were exempted from the marriage ban imposed on other Pazzi daughters.[11]
In 1460, Bianca was asked to play the organ for Pope Pius II and his entourage during a visit to Florence, as the pope was coming back from the Council of Mantua.[12][2] Teodoro Montefeltro, the Apostolic protonotary travelling with the pope, praised the performance in a letter to Barbara of Brandenburg, Marquise of Mantua.[13] During the same papal visit, she performed a second concert for the future pope Rodrigo Borgia at his request.[2] Bianca often performed for local and visiting dignitaries, contributing to her families' reputation and influence.[2]
In 1475, Bianca asked her mother to purchase farmland from other relatives for her, as Lucrezia had more influence within the family.[3] Though Bianca owned the property, it was managed by staff employed by her mother.[3]
Issue
Bianca and Guglielmo had sixteen children, nine sons and seven daughters:[14]
Antonio de' Pazzi (1460), died as an infant
Giovanna de' Pazzi, married Tommaso Monaldi in 1471
Contessina de' Pazzi, married Giuliano Salviati in 1476
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Prizer, William F. (1991). "Games of Venus: Secular Vocal Music in the Late Quattrocento and Early Cinquecento". The Journal of Musicology. 9 (1). University of California Press: 3–56. doi:10.2307/763832. JSTOR763832.
Tomas, Natalie R. (2003). The Medici Women: Gender and Power in Renaissance Florence. Aldershot: Ashgate. ISBN0754607771.
