Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence (Enterprise)
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (571 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393058271 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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In the space where this cultural conflict plays out, sometimes as stylized as one of Lorenzo Il Magnifico's tournaments, sometimes as life-threateningly fiery as Savonarola's sermons against worldly vanities, we find a world both akin to our own and almost incomprehensibly distant. . His prose is swift and economical, cutting to the chase. The Renaissance, so often seen as a clean break with the medieval past, was really an age of creative ambivalence and paradox. All rights reserved. Like the Medici-commissioned funerary monument for the anti-Pope John XXIII, the effect is startlingly vibrant, resembling "those moments in Dante's Inferno when one of the damned ceases merely to represent this or that sin and becomes a man or woman with a complex story, someone we are interested in, sympathetic towards." (May) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. In this marvelously fresh addition to the Enterprise series
Douglas Maxwell MD said Well written and detailed. Follows the important family members. Well written and detailed. Follows the important family members, so is not a comprehensive history of the relationships, which determined policies.. A well-written history book (for a change)! The focus of the book is the rise, and fall, of the Medici bank, rather than the Medici themselves. However, the former explains a lot about the latter. It takes you through the founding of the business, as a not-wholly reputable business conducted by mer. F. B. Jeffery said Solid summary of the Medici story. Tim Parks once again demonstrates his ability to write an engaging story about things Italian. Following his revealing exploration of how soccer is played (on and off the field), he turns to an explanation of the rise and fall of the Medici banking dynast
An account of the Renaissance era's preeminent financiers describes how the Medicis built their fortune, documenting the political, diplomatic, and metaphysical tools that enabled them to retain their wealth and become art patrons and nobles.