[PDF.84ym] Medici Money: Banking, metaphysics and art in fifteenth-century Florence

Medici Money: Banking, metaphysics and art in fifteenth-century Florence

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Part of financial history|By aalorso|I like the book but I would preferred a stronger focus on the financial aspects, like a forensic audit of the bank, in order to have a complete picture of the rise and fall of this important institution of the Renaissance. Keeping the timeline of events was difficult for me, but I guess it was a tremendous task for the writer considering th|From Publishers Weekly|Starred . The Renaissance, so often seen as a clean break with the medieval past, was really an age of creative ambivalence and paradox. In this marvelously fresh addition to the Enterprise series, Parks, author of the Booker-listed Eu

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 t...

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