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Petrucci, Pandolfo

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Petrucci, Pandolfo (c. 1452-1512)

Italian political figure. Returning from exile in 1487 he seized control of Siena. A popular despot, who improved the city's finances and support the arts, he had to leave Siena in 1502 after being implicated in an attempt to assassinate Cesare Borgia. He returned within a few months having won the support of the French, though in 1511 he sided with Pope Julius II against the French. He abdicated in favour of his son Borghese Petrucci in 1512.

Borghese and his brother Fabio were expelled from the city in 1516, though Fabio was ruler 1522-24. A third brother, Alfonso, was a cardinal; implicated in a plot to kill Pope Leo X, he died in prison in Rome in 1517.



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