
Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics And Art In Fifteenth-Century Florence
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 tw...
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Print Length: 288 pages
Publisher: Profile Books; Main edition (August 22, 2013)
Publication Date: August 22, 2013
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Language: English
ASIN: B00EDJEVVI
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“Based on the book’s subtitle, one would expect to learn about banking, metaphysics and art in fifteenth century Florence, Italy. However, this book is really just about the Medici dynasty, its rise and fall, and only during a 100-year period. The p...”
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 his wealth taken away by taxation? But the bank became indispensable to the Church. And the family completely subverted Florence's claims to being democratic. They ran the city. Medici Money explores a crucial moment in the passage from the Middle Ages to the Modern world, a moment when our own attitudes to money and morals were being formed. To read this book is to understand how much the Renaissance has to tell us about our own world. Medici Money is one of the launch titles in a new series, Atlas Books, edited by James Atlas. Atlas Books pairs fine writers with stories of the economic forces that have shaped the world, in a new genre - the business book as literature.
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