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

by Paul Strathern

Book Overview

A dazzling history of the modest family that rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power, money, and ambition. Against the background of an age that saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning Paul Strathern explores the intensely dramatic rise and fall of the Medici family in Florence, as well as the Italian Renaissance which they did so much to sponsor and encourage.Strathern also follows...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1681774089
• ISBN13: 9781681774084
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Pegasus Books
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

the medici godfathers of the renaisance

one of the best books about the renaisance that i have read. great historical, religious, political and cultural perspective of the period . it makes you feel you coexist with the wonders and perils of the period.

Nice narrative introduction into the world of Renaissance

The book is written in a narrative style telling the story of the entire Medici Dynasty. Paul Strathern understands to put his main charakters into the appropriate historical background. I liked the crosslinks to many historically important charakters and their achievements. The end of the book loses a bit of it's flavour due to the disperse stories told about europe's nobility.