Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-century Florence

Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-century Florence
ISBN-10
0393058271
ISBN-13
9780393058277
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
273
Language
English
Published
2005
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Authors
Tim Parks, Professor of Literature and Translation Tim Parks

Description

An account of the Renaissance era's preeminent financiers describes how the Medicis built their fortune as money lenders in spite of the Catholic church's prohibition against usury, documenting the family's mastery of political, diplomatic, military, and metaphysical tools that enabled them to retain their wealth and become art patrons and nobles. 25,000 first printing.

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