The Medici: Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance

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A vivid, dramatic, and authoritative account of most likely probably the most influential circle of relatives in Italian history: the Medici.

A dazzling history of the modest circle of relatives that rose to develop into one of the vital powerful in Europe, The Medici is a remarkably brand new story of power, money, and ambition. Against the background of an age that saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning Paul Strathern explores the intensely dramatic rise and fall of the Medici circle of relatives in Florence, in addition to the Italian Renaissance which they did such a lot to sponsor and encourage.

Strathern also follows the lives of a number of the great Renaissance artists with whom the Medici had dealings, including Leonardo, Michelangelo and Donatello; in addition to scientists like Galileo and Pico della Mirandola; and the fortunes of those members of the Medici circle of relatives who achieved success away from Florence, including the two Medici popes and Catherine de’ Médicis, who became Queen of France and played a huge role in that country through three turbulent reigns.

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