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Tim Parks

Medici Money

Banking, metaphysics and art in fifteenth-century Florence

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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 two 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 bec… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-86197-757-1
  • EAN: 9781861977571
  • Produktnummer: 1917184
  • Verlag: Profile Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
  • Seitenangabe: 288 S.
  • Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
  • Masse: H19.8 cm x B13.0 cm x D1.8 cm 200 g
  • Gewicht: 200

Über den Autor


Tim Parks has lived in Italy since 1981. He is the author of eleven novels, three accounts of life in Italy, two collections of essays and many translations of Italian writers.

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