Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. This book charts the family's huge influence on the political, economic and cultural history of Florence. A republican city-state funded by trade and banking, its bloody political scene was dominated by mercantile families, the most famous of which were the Medici. In George III: A Personal History, British historian Christopher Hibbert reassesses the royal monarch George III (. At its height Renaissance Florence was a centre of wealth, power and influence.
This enthralling book charts their huge influence on the political, economic and cultural history of Florence, beginning in the early 1430's with the rise of the dynasty under the near-legendary Cosimo de'Medici, through their golden era as patrons of some of the Medici Popes and Grand Dukes, Florence's slide into decay and bankruptcy, and the end, in 1737, of the Medici line. 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. Christopher Hibbert, the author of The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici, was one of the best-known writers of popular history in the 1970s and 80s (he died. At its height, Renaissance Florence was a centre of enormous wealth, power and influence.
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