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The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici

By Christopher Hibbert

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Year
2013
ISBN
9780140050905, 9780141927145
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2404256 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2025-04-20 08:05:06

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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