[PDF.45cx] Medici Money: Banking, metaphysics and art in fifteenth-century Florence

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

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#478539 in eBooks 2013-08-22 2013-08-22File Name: B00EDJEVVI0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Part of financial historyBy aalorsoI like the book but I would preferred a stronger focus on the financial aspects, like a forensic audit of the bank, in order to have a complete picture of the rise and fall of this important institution of the Renaissance. Keeping the timeline of events was difficult for me, but I guess it was a tremendous task for the writer considering the events developed over more than a century. If you are planning to visiFrom Publishers WeeklyStarred . The Renaissance, so often seen as a clean break with the medieval past, was really an age of creative ambivalence and paradox. In this marvelously fresh addition to the Enterprise series, Parks, author of the Booker-listed Europa and a literary observer of modern ItaThe 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 inte...

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