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

ISBN-13: 9781861977571 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 288 str.

Tim Parks

Opis

The Medici are famous as the rulers of Florence at the high point of the Renaissance. Their power is derived from the family bank. This book tells the fascinating, frequently bloody story of the family and the dramatic development and collapse of their bank.

Recenzje

Lucky for Italy that Tim Parks decided to live there and write about his new home. His books instruct and entertain. His acute sense of people and history now comes to grand fruition in his tome on the Medici, a gift to anyone who has been dazzled by Florence. Splendid reading Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun

O autorze

Parks, Tim
Tim Parks has lived in Italy since 1981. He is the author of eleven novels, three accounts of life in Italy, two collections of essays and many translations of Italian writers.