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Medici Money

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Description for Medici Money Paperback. .
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Profile Books Ltd United Kingdom
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861977571
SKU
V9781861977571
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About Tim Parks
Tim Parks has lived in Italy since 1981. He is the author of eleven novels, three accounts of life in Italy, two collections of essays and many translations of Italian writers.

Reviews for Medici Money
Lucky for Italy that Tim Parks decided to live there and write about his new home. His books instruct and entertain. His acute sense of people and history now comes to grand fruition in his tome on the Medici, a gift to anyone who has been dazzled by Florence. Splendid reading
Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan ... Read more

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