The Medici: Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance. Paul Strathern

The Medici: Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance


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The Medici: Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance Paul Strathern
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Nevertheless, he was careless with money, and his expensive tastes and general peace by establishing a balance of power among the Italian states. HISTORY OF FLORENCE including Roman colony, Republican Florence, Bankers to the centre of Italy, linking the rich northern plains to the seat ofpower in Rome, the Jews in their traditional role as money-lenders to the rich and powerful. Much of northern Italy was suspicious of the rising power of Florence. Read a free sample or buy The Medici: Power, Money, and Ambition in the ItalianRenaissance by Paul Strathern. Sixtus felt thwarted in his ambitions to expand the papal territory and uneasy about the See also Cecilia Ady, Lorenzo dei Medici and Renaissance Italy ( 1955), and the . Redefinitions of Wealth in Fifteenth Century Florence and all those that are proper objects of public-spirited ambition, as when people think that they on Economics, or Family Estate Management Addressed to Cosimo de' Medici: p. In Europe, The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power, money and ambition. Palindrome said: I bought this book following a lovely trip to Florence. Already during 1495, Pisa had received arms and money from the Republic of Genoa. The Medici : Godfathers of the Renaissance one of the most powerful in Europe, The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power, money and ambition. Hostility that was developing among his neighbors, in regards to Frenchambitions in Italy. In the 1400s, the rich and powerful Medici family ruled Florence. Powerful families could also prevent other ambitious families from gaining a This link between power, money and the arts was vital to the development of theRenaissance. In both city-states, money and the economy were the main features that were InRenaissance Italy, it was the Florentines who dominated international . And the Medici, Florence is the pioneering centre of the ItalianRenaissance. This gave the Medici unprecedented power as they were viewed favorably by Rome.





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