[3] Orphaned at a young age, Salviati was educated as a humanist but vied to succeed in the church, knowing he could not rise to power in the family after losing his father.

[3] In 1464, Salviati moved to Rome to attach himself to Francesco della Rovere – who later became Pope Sixtus IV – and his nephews, Girolamo and Pietro Riario.

In spring 1478, Salviati sent his nephew Raffaele Riario to lure Lorenzo and Giuliano into a trap by inviting them to mass at the Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral, where the attack would take place.

However, upon arriving at the Palazzo Vecchio, Salviati was arrested by Petrucci and within an hour had been hanged by a lynch mob from the window of the Sala dei Duecento.

Following the failure of the Pazzi plot, Salviati is able to flee to his villa in the Tuscan countryside (an unfortunate farmer having been hanged in Florence in his place), only to be hunted down and assassinated in 1479 by Ezio Auditore.