The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall by Christopher Hibbert

The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall

Christopher Hibbert

384 pages first pub 1975 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
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At its height, Renaissance Florence was a center of enormous wealth, power, and influence. A republican city-state funded by trade and banking, its often bloody political scene was dominated by rich mercantile families, the most famous of which we...

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