The Medici : power, money, and ambition in the Italian Renaissance

Author

Paul Strathern

Call Numbers

• 945.51 S899,1 (CEN)
• 945.51 S899.1 (OSH)

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Edition

First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.

Publication Information

New York, NY : Pegasus Books, 2016.

Physical Description

430 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, genealogical table, maps, portraits ; 24 cm

Notes

Originally published: The Medici : godfathers of the Renaissance. -- London : Jonathan Cape, 2003.

Contents

• Medici leaders and rulers in Florence
• High noon
• Origins of a dynasty. Ancient beginnings ; The origins of the Medici bank ; Giovanni's legacy ; Cosimo rising ; The moment of truth
• Out of the darkness. The Medici in exile ; The dawn of Humanism ; East meets West ; Art reborn : the egg dome and the human statue ; 'Father of the country' ; Piero the Gouty
• The Prince and the Prophet of Doom. The Renaissance Prince ; Murder in the cathedral ; Plato in the piazzas ; A succession of masters ; The tide turns ; The Bonfire of the Vanities
• The Pope and the Protestant. 'Il Gigante' : a statue of biblical proportions ; Rome : the Medici's new home ; Machiavelli meets his match ; Rome and the Lion Pope ; The Pope and the Protestant ; The Papacy stays in the family
• The battle for truth. A grim aftermath ; Aristocratic rule ; Medici : European royalty ; Godfathers of the scientific Renaissance ; Godfathers no more? ; Finale.