Tim Parks – Medici Money (EPUB)

Tim Parks - Medici Money (EPUB) Download

Tim Parks – Medici Money (EPUB)
EPUB | 4.27 MB | N/A Pages

Title: Medici Money
Author: Tim Parks
Language: English
Publication date: 2013
Publisher: Profile
ISBN: 9781847656872
Subjects: Art, Architecture & Photography, Business, History, Art – History & Criticism, Industries, Professional Finance & Investing, European History, General & Miscellaneous Art, Financial Industries, Renaissance Art, Italian History, Medieval History, European Art, Art Collecting & Patronage, Banks, Savings & Loans, & Credit Unions – General & Miscellaneous, Early & Middle Renaissance Art, General & Miscellaneous Italian History, General & Miscellaneous Medieval History, General & Miscellaneous Renaissance Art, Italian Art, Italian History – 1494 – 1861, Italian History – 962 – 1494 (Medieval & Renaissance Italy)
The Medici are famous as the rulers of Florence at the high point of the Renaissance. Their power derived from the family bank, and this book tells the fascinating, frequently bloody story of the family and the dramatic development and collapse of their bank (from Cosimo who took it over in 1419 to his grandson Lorenzo the Magnificent who presided over its precipitous decline). The Medici faced two apparently insuperable problems: how did a banker deal with the fact that the Church regarded interest as a sin and had made it illegal? How in a small republic like Florence could he avoid having his wealth taken away by taxation? But the bank became indispensable to the Church. And the family completely subverted Florence’s claims to being democratic. They ran the city. Medici Money explores a crucial moment in the passage from the Middle Ages to the Modern world, a moment when our own attitudes to money and morals were being formed.To read this book is to understand how much the…
Download:

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *