The Rise And Fall Of The House Of Medici
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The Rise And Fall Of The House Of Medici
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Author : Christopher Hibbert
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2001-12-06
The Rise And Fall Of The House Of Medici written by Christopher Hibbert and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-12-06 with History categories.
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.
The Rise And Fall Of The House Of Medici
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language : en
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Release Date : 1996
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The House Of Medici
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Author : Christopher Hibbert
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2012-07-17
The House Of Medici written by Christopher Hibbert and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-17 with History categories.
It was a dynasty with more wealth, passion, and power than the houses of Windsor, Kennedy, and Rockefeller combined. It shaped all of Europe and controlled politics, scientists, artists, and even popes, for three hundred years. It was the house of Medici, patrons of Botticelli, Michelangelo and Galileo, benefactors who turned Florence into a global power center, and then lost it all. The House of Medici picks up where Barbara Tuchman's Hibbert delves into the lives of the Medici family, whose legacy of increasing self-indulgence and sexual dalliance eventually led to its self-destruction. With twenty-four pages of black-and-white illustrations, this timeless saga is one of Quill's strongest-selling paperbacks.
Medici Money
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Author : Tim Parks
language : en
Publisher: Profile Books
Release Date : 2013-08-22
Medici Money written by Tim Parks and has been published by Profile Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-22 with History categories.
The Medici are famous as the rulers of Florence at the high point of the Renaissance. Their power derived from the family bank, and this book tells the fascinating, frequently bloody story of the family and the dramatic development and collapse of their bank (from Cosimo who took it over in 1419 to his grandson Lorenzo the Magnificent who presided over its precipitous decline). The Medici faced two apparently insuperable problems: how did a banker deal with the fact that the Church regarded interest as a sin and had made it illegal? How in a small republic like Florence could he avoid having his wealth taken away by taxation? But the bank became indispensable to the Church. And the family completely subverted Florence's claims to being democratic. They ran the city. Medici Money explores a crucial moment in the passage from the Middle Ages to the Modern world, a moment when our own attitudes to money and morals were being formed. To read this book is to understand how much the Renaissance has to tell us about our own world. Medici Money is one of the launch titles in a new series, Atlas Books, edited by James Atlas. Atlas Books pairs fine writers with stories of the economic forces that have shaped the world, in a new genre - the business book as literature.
The Medici
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Author : Paul Strathern
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2018-02-22
The Medici written by Paul Strathern and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-22 with Art categories.
A dazzling piece of Italian history of the infamous family that become one of the most powerful in Europe, weaving its history with Renaissance greats from Leonardo da Vinci to Galileo Against the background of an age which saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning, The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power, money and ambition. Strathern paints a vivid narrative of the dramatic rise and fall of the Medici family in Florence, as well as the Italian Renaissance which they did so much to sponsor and encourage. Strathern also follows the lives of many of the great Renaissance artists with whom the Medici had dealings, including Leonardo, Michelangelo and Donatello; as well as scientists like Galileo and Pico della Mirandola; and the fortunes of those members of the Medici family who achieved success away from Florence, including the two Medici popes and Catherine de' Médicis, who became Queen of France and played a major role in that country through three turbulent reigns. ‘A great overview of one family's centuries-long role in changing the face of Europe’ Irish Independent
The Medici
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Author : Mary Hollingsworth
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2017-10-05
The Medici written by Mary Hollingsworth and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-05 with History categories.
'This forensic study of the Renaissance banking dynasty conjures up a world of art, literature, philosophy – and brutality' Telegraph 'Likely to become the standard work of reference on the members of the family that dominated Florence' TLS 'A lucid and beautifully illustrated family history' The Times Wealthy bankers, wise politicians, patrons of the arts, glittering dukes... so runs the traditional telling of the story of the Medici, the family that ruled Florence for two hundred years and inspired the birth of the Italian Renaissance. In this definitive account of their rise and fall, Mary Hollingsworth argues that the idea that the Medici were wise rulers and enlightened fathers of the Renaissance is a fiction. In truth, she says, the Medici were as devious and immoral as the Borgias – tyrants loathed in the city they illegally made their own and which they beggared in their lust for power.
Magnifico
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Author : Miles Unger
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2008
Magnifico written by Miles Unger and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Miles Unger's biography of this complex figure draws on primary research in Italian sources and on his intimate knowledge of Florence, where he lived for several years."--BOOK JACKET.
Lucrezia Tornabuoni De Medici And The Medici Family In The Fifteenth Century
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Author : Maria Grazia Pernis
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2006
Lucrezia Tornabuoni De Medici And The Medici Family In The Fifteenth Century written by Maria Grazia Pernis and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Florence (Italy) categories.
Lucrezia Tornabuoni de' Medici and the Medici Family in the Fifteenth Century is a fresh, new biography of a Renaissance woman who lived during the heyday of Medici power. A remarkable person in her own right, the author of religious poems and sacred narratives, as well as an accomplished businesswoman, Lucrezia was the mother of Lorenzo the Magnificent, the grandmother of two popes, and the great-great grandmother of Catherine de' Medici, Queen of France. This glimpse of her life and times is a window onto the political intrigues and intellectual achievements of Medici Florence.
The Tragedies Of The Medici
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Author : Edgcumbe Staley
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-05-28
The Tragedies Of The Medici written by Edgcumbe Staley and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-28 with Fiction categories.
The Tragedies of Medici is an account of the Medici Family during the Rennaisance period, giving great insight into life in Rennaissance Italy. The book pays special attention to the life of Lorenzo Medici.
The Borgias And Their Enemies 1431 1519
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Author : Christopher Hibbert
language : en
Publisher: HMH
Release Date : 2009-09-16
The Borgias And Their Enemies 1431 1519 written by Christopher Hibbert and has been published by HMH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This colorful history of a powerful family brings the world they lived in—the glittering Rome of the Italian Renaissance—to life. The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance Italy. The powerful, voracious Rodrigo Borgia, better known to history as Pope Alexander VI, was the central figure of the dynasty. Two of his seven papal offspring also rose to power and fame—Lucrezia Borgia, his daughter, whose husband was famously murdered by her brother, and that brother, Cesare, who inspired Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince. Notorious for seizing power, wealth, land, and titles through bribery, marriage, and murder, the dynasty’s dramatic rise from its Spanish roots to its occupation of the highest position in Renaissance society forms a gripping tale. From the author of The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici and other acclaimed works, The Borgias and Their Enemies is “a fascinating read” (Library Journal).