Keeping Up With The Medici
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Author | : Tim Parks |
Publisher | : Profile Books |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2013-08-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1847656870 |
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.
Author | : Frans Johansson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Creative ability |
ISBN | : 9781633692947 |
Originally published as: The Medici effect: breakthrough insights at the intersection of ideas, concepts, and cultures. Boston, Massachusetts: Harvard Business School Press, A2004.
Author | : Luca Landucci |
Publisher | : Hassell Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021-09-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781014070982 |
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Author | : Richard Stapleford |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 027105641X |
"An inventory of the private possessions of Lorenzo il Magnifico de' Medici, head of the ruling Medici family during the apogee of the Florentine Renaissance"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Emma Micheletti |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John L'Heureux |
Publisher | : House of Stratus |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2014-04-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1938231481 |
While creating his famous bronze of David and Goliath, Donatello’s passion for his beautiful model and part time rent boy, Agnolo, ignites a dangerous jealousy that ultimately leads to murder. Luca, the complex and conflicted assistant, will sacrifice all to save Donatello, even his master’s friend--the great patron of art, Cosimo de’ Medici.
Author | : Christopher Hibbert |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2012-07-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0062228196 |
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.
Author | : Leonie Frieda |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2022-01-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0063235919 |
The inspiration for the STARZ original series, The Serpent Queen, premiering September 11. “A beautifully written portrait of a ruthless, subtle and fearless woman fighting for survival and power in a world of gangsterish brutality, routine assassination and religious mania. . . . Frieda has brought a largely forgotten heroine-villainess and a whole sumptuously vicious era back to life. . . . This is The Godfather meets Elizabeth.” —Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar Poisoner, besotted mother, despot, necromancer, engineer of a massacre: the dark legend of Catherine de Medici is centuries old. In this critically hailed biography, Leonie Frieda reclaims the story of this unjustly maligned queen of France to reveal a skilled ruler battling extraordinary political and personal odds. Based on comprehensive research including thousands of Catherine’s own letters, Frieda unfurls Catherine’s story from her troubled childhood in Florence to her tumultuous marriage to Henry II of France; her transformation of French culture to her reign as a queen who would use brutality to ensure her children’s royal birthright. Brilliantly executed, this enthralling biography goes beyond myth to paint a very human portrait of this remarkable figure.
Author | : Paul Strathern |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 403 |
Release | : 2015-08-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1605988278 |
By the end of the fifteenth century, Florence was well established as the home of the Renaissance. As generous patrons to the likes of Botticelli and Michelangelo, the ruling Medici embodied the progressive humanist spirit of the age, and in Lorenzo de' Medici they possessed a diplomat capable of guarding the militarily weak city in a climate of constantly shifting allegiances. In Savonarola, an unprepossessing provincial monk, Lorenzo found his nemesis. Filled with Old Testament fury, Savonarola's sermons reverberated among a disenfranchised population, who preferred medieval Biblical certainties to the philosophical interrogations and intoxicating surface glitter of the Renaissance. The battle between these two men would be a fight to the death, a series of sensational events—invasions, trials by fire, the 'Bonfire of the Vanities', terrible executions and mysterious deaths—featuring a cast of the most important and charismatic Renaissance figures.In an exhilaratingly rich and deeply researched story, Paul Strathern reveals the paradoxes, self-doubts, and political compromises that made the battle for the soul of the Renaissance city one of the most complex and important moments in Western history.
Author | : Ana Maria Medici |
Publisher | : Medici Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 2020-10-17 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781735283135 |
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