Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence by Tim Parks

Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence

Italy and Italians

Tim Parks

273 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction economics history challenging informative slow-paced
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Before they achieved renown as patrons of the arts and de facto rulers of Florence, the Medici family earned their fortune in banking. But even at the height of the Renaissance, charging interest of any kind meant running afoul of the Catholic Chu...

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