Book
The Medici : power, money, and ambition in the Italian Renaissance / Paul Strathern.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781605989662 :
- ISBN: 1605989665
- Physical Description: 430 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, genealogical table, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Pegasus Books, 2016.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Originally published: The Medici : godfathers of the Renaissance. -- London : Jonathan Cape, 2003.
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-417) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Medici leaders and rulers in Florence -- High noon -- Origins of a dynasty. Ancient beginnings ; The origins of the Medici bank ; Giovanni's legacy ; Cosimo rising ; The moment of truth -- Out of the darkness. The Medici in exile ; The dawn of Humanism ; East meets West ; Art reborn : the egg dome and the human statue ; 'Father of the country' ; Piero the Gouty -- The Prince and the Prophet of Doom. The Renaissance Prince ; Murder in the cathedral ; Plato in the piazzas ; A succession of masters ; The tide turns ; The Bonfire of the Vanities -- The Pope and the Protestant. 'Il Gigante' : a statue of biblical proportions ; Rome : the Medici's new home ; Machiavelli meets his match ; Rome and the Lion Pope ; The Pope and the Protestant ; The Papacy stays in the family -- The battle for truth. A grim aftermath ; Aristocratic rule ; Medici : European royalty ; Godfathers of the scientific Renaissance ; Godfathers no more? ; Finale.
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- Subject:
- Medici, House of.
Renaissance > Italy.
Florence (Italy) > History > 1421-1737.
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- 14 of 15 copies available at Westchester Library System.
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