Books Details
Author : Christopher Hibbert Pages : 384 pages Publisher :
William Morrow Paperbacks Language : ISBN-10 : 0688053394 ISBN-
13 : 9780688053390
Books Descriptions
At its height, Renaissance Florence was a center 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.
