The Medici
by Mary Hollingsworth
- ISBN
- 9781803281254
- Publisher
- Head of Zeus
- Publication year
- 2022
- Pages
- 480
- Language
- English
- Format
- Broșată
Description
Wealthy bankers, wise politicians, patrons of the arts, glittering dukes... so runs the traditional telling of the story of the Medici, the family that ruled Florence for two hundred years and inspired the birth of the Italian Renaissance.In this definitive account of their rise and fall, Mary Hollingsworth argues that the idea that the Medici were wise rulers and enlightened fathers of the Renaissance is a fiction. In truth, she says, the Medici were as devious and immoral as the Borgias - tyrants loathed in the city they illegally made their own and which they beggared in their lust for power.
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