![]() ![]() ![]() her husband to the rich records in Italy of the banking house of the Medici. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Although the author of The Rise and Decline of the Medici Bank is well. ![]() This book charts the family's huge influence on the political, economic and cultural history of Florence. A republican city-state funded by trade and banking, its bloody political scene was dominated by mercantile families, the most famous of which were the Medici. At its height Renaissance Florence was a centre of wealth, power and influence. This enthralling book charts their huge influence on the political, economic and cultural history of Florence, beginning in the early 1430's with the rise of the dynasty under the near-legendary Cosimo de'Medici, through their golden era as patrons of some of the Medici Popes and Grand Dukes, Florence's slide into decay and bankruptcy, and the end, in 1737, of the Medici line. Cosimo was the father of a line of princes, whose name and age are almost synonymous with the restoration of learning his credit was ennobled into fame his riches were dedicated to the service of. ![]() 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. It was a dynasty with more wealth, passion, and power than the houses of Windsor, Kennedy, and Rockefeller combined. Hibbert in The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici, 1974 in Martin Longman, Italian Renaissance (Longman, 1992). At its height, Renaissance Florence was a centre of enormous wealth, power and influence. ![]()
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