2017, ISBN: 9781786691514

eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), 'This forensic study of the Renaissance banking dynasty conjures up a world of art, literature, philosophy and brutality' Telegraph'Likely to become the s… Plus…

eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), '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 TimesWealthy 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. [PU: Head of Zeus], Seiten: 480, Head of Zeus, 2017<

ISBN: 9781786691514

'This forensic study of the Renaissance banking dynasty conjures up a world of art, literature, philosophy â?? and brutality' Telegraph 'Likely to become the standard work of reference on… Plus…

'This forensic study of the Renaissance banking dynasty conjures up a world of art, literature, philosophy â?? 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 â?? tyrants loathed in the city they illegally made their own and which they beggared in their lust for power. History, eBooks.com<

ISBN: 9781786691514

Having founded the bank that became the most powerful in Europe in the fifteenth century, the Medici gained political power in Florence, raising the city to a peak of cultural achievement… Plus…

Having founded the bank that became the most powerful in Europe in the fifteenth century, the Medici gained political power in Florence, raising the city to a peak of cultural achievement and becoming its hereditary dukes. Among their number were Having founded the bank that became the most powerful in Europe in the fifteenth century, the Medici gained political power in Florence, raising the city to a peak of cultural achievement and becoming its hereditary dukes. Among their number were, Head of Zeus<

ISBN: 9781786691514

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2017, ISBN: 9781786691514

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