Pazzi conspiracy
Gentile became a prominent member of the Medici Academy, alongside the philosophers Marsilio Ficino, Cristoforo Landino and later, Agnolo Poliziano and Pico della Mirandola. He was known as a poet, as well as a theologian and orator, and communicated with other poets and humanists including Cardinal Jacopo Piccolomini-Ammannati, Francesco Filelfo, and Donato Acciaiuoli. Agnolo Poliziano dedicated his ode "Del Lungo", written in the wake of the Pazzi conspiracy, to de' Becchi.