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The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici (Chinese Edition)

By Christopher Hibbert

Book information

Publisher
Social Science Academic Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9787509797181, 7509797187
Language
english
Format
AZW3
Filesize
2 MB (2321444 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
409\0
Library
sobooks
Time added
2023-06-27 03:31:08

Description

At its height Renaissance Florence was a centre of enormous wealth, power and influence. A republican city-state funded by trade and banking, its often bloody political scene was dominated by rich mercantile families, the most famous of which were the Medici. This enthralling book charts the family's huge influence on the political, economic and cultural history of Florence. Beginning in the early 1430s with the rise of the dynasty under the near-legendary Cosimo de Medici, it moves through their golden era as patrons of some of the most remarkable artists and architects of the Renaissance, to the era of the Medici Popes and Grand Dukes, Florence's slide into decay and bankruptcy, and the end, in 1737, of the Medici line.

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