Full name: The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall

Author: Christopher Hibbert Year: 1975 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Biographies, Art Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780688053390 0688053394

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 were the Medici. This enthralling book charts the family's huge influence on the political, economic and cultural history of Florence. Beginning in the early 1430s with the rise of the dynasty under the near-legendary Cosimo de Medici, it moves through their golden era as patrons of some of the most remarkable artists and architects of the Renaissance, to the era of the Medici Popes and Grand Dukes, Florence's slide into decay and bankruptcy, and the end, in 1737, of the Medici line. Similar books: The Montefeltro Conspiracy by Marcello Simonetta George III by Christopher Hibbert The Medici by Paul Strathern April Blood by Lauro Martines Fire in the City by Lauro Martines The Cardinal's Hat by Mary Hollingsworth The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431-1519 by Christopher Hibbert The Tigress of Forli by Elizabeth Lev Murder of a Medici Princess by Caroline P. Murphy The Borgias by G. J. Meyer A History of Contemporary Italy by Paul Ginsborg The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt A History of Venice by John Julius Norwich The Life and Times of Lucrezia Borgia by Maria Bellonci Magnifico by Miles J. Unger The Renaissance by Will Durant River of Shadows by Rebecca Solnit A Revolution in Color by Jane Kamensky Leonardo and the Last Supper by Ross King The Great Mutiny by Christopher Hibbert