The article, "Murder at the Vatican" describes the plot and reason behind the attempted murder of Pope Leo X, by the Pope's Cardinals. Pope Leo X was a member of the Medici family, a powerful banking family during the Italian Renaissance. There is a theory that Pope Leo X took advantage of this accused attempted murder. Earlier, Pope Leo X had plans for his younger brother to take over Rome. However, Leo's brother died, which spurred the ending of the Medici dynasty in Italy because soon after, Leo fell ill. Not long after Leo became ill, the five Cardinals were accused of poisoning the Pope. Supposed motives of this attempted murder was the financial stance of the Medici family. There was evidence that the Medici family was losing money at the time, due to them selling many lucrative church offices. Despite the money conspiracies of Pope Leo and the Cardinal's motives, one of the Cardinals accused for the attempted murder of Pope Leo X was Cardinal Petrucci, who came from Pope Leo's enemy town, Siena, was executed. The other Cardinals had family members convince the prison to refrain from executing them. This attempted murder was one of the striking mysteries of the time period. This article relates to our class because we learned about how powerful the Medici family was in Florence during the Italian Renaissance. We learned in class how Italy was divided into the states of Papal, Naples, Florence, Venice, and Milan, which was also mentioned in the article. Last, the same time period this occurred, Martin Luther started the Protestant Reformation, which was also mentioned in this article.
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