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

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

Paul Strathern

430 pages first pub 2003 (editions) user-added

nonfiction biography history adventurous reflective slow-paced

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A dazzling history of the modest family that rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power, money, and ambition. Against the background of an age that saw the rebirth of ancient and classical l...

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