Baglioni family
The Baglioni were a magnate family prominent in the political life of Perugia from the 13th century. With wealth derived from employment as condottieri they came from the 1420s to constitute the most powerful family in the commune. They are principally famed for their crimes: Braccio di Malatesta's murder of his cousin Pandolfo and nephew Niccolò (1460); massacres of the rival Oddi family (1482, 1484); the killing by lesser members of the family of Carlo, Filippo di Braccio, Guido, Rodolfo and Astorre (1500). For this reason, perhaps, Machiavelli was to lament the failure of Giampolo Baglioni to win eternal renown by murdering Pope Julius II on his entry into Perugia (1506). Malatesta IV commanded the army of the Florentine Repub- lic and offered its surrender to the Medici in 1530.
