Guilds of Florence - Government - Medici - Florentine home-life - Artists of Florence - Benozzo Gozzoli - Filippo Brunelleschi - Cellini.
Originally published in 1960, paints a picture of what life was like in Renaissance Florence.
The enduring fascination of the Medici springs from their ability--as individuals and as a family--to control the government of Florence, first as a quasi-democracy and finally through inheritance.
To read this book is to understand how much the Renaissance has to tell us about our own world. Medici Money is one of the launch titles in a new series, Atlas Books, edited by James Atlas.
Penny , N. , Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum , 1540 to the Present Day , vol . I , Italian , Oxford , 1992 . Pera , F. , Memoria sopra il Monumento inalzato al Granduca Ferdinando I in Livorno Estratta dalla ...
More than just a study of the discoveries themselves, this volume is a vivid exploration of the New World as it existed in the minds of the Medici and their contemporaries.
Florence in the Time of the Medici
History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy
The battle between these two men would be a fight to the death, a series of sensational events—invasions, trials by fire, the 'Bonfire of the Vanities', terrible executions and mysterious deaths—featuring a cast of the most important ...
Set within the context of the struggles in the Florentine Republic over the distribution of political power and the search for stability, Florence in the Age of the Medici and Savonarola, 1464–1498: A Short History with Documents ...
History of Florence: From the Founding of the City Through the Renaissance