Medici Money: Banking, metaphysics and art in fifteenth-century Florence by Tim Parks

Medici Money: Banking, metaphysics and art in fifteenth-century Florence

Italy and Italians

Tim Parks

273 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction economics history challenging informative slow-paced
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In the 15th century the Medici family ruled Florence and are famous as patrons of the arts and political actors. Parks explores the root of their power: the family bank. For five generations the Medici bought power and influence, often with a now ...

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