Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Medici Money

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

855505473

Sub title

Banking, metaphysics and art in fifteenth-century Florence

Summary

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 h

Table Of Contents

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Medici Family Tree; Chronology; 1 With Usura ... ; 2 The Art of Exchange; 3 The Rise to Power; 4 "The Secret Things of Our Town"; 5 Blue Blood and White Elephants; 6 The Magnificent Decline; Bibliographic Notes; Illustration Credits; Index

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