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Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance: With Massimo Marinoni, Peter Guinness, Ross King, Pip Torrens. Tracing the Medici family's rise from a modest Florentine community to European rulers through charm, patronage and ruthlessness that ignited the Renaissance while sowing seeds of their eventual downfall.
Oct 23, 2003 · I've already read Paul Strathern's Death in Florence: The Medici, Savonarola, and the Battle for the Soul of a Renaissance City a while ago, and thought it was excellent. "The Medici: Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance" tells the story of Medici, from the family's early days to the last Medici ruler of Florence.
From a small Italian community in 15th-century Florence, the Medici family would rise to rule Europe in many ways. Using charm, patronage, skill, duplicity and ruthlessness, they would amass unparalleled wealth and unprecedented power. They would also ignite the most important cultural and artistic revolution in Western history-the European Renaissance. But the forces of change the Medici helped unleash would one day topple their ordered world. An epic drama played out in the courts ...
Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance tells the story of a violent, dramatic and compelling age; a critical turning point in Western history. Travel back in time to see the real human stories ...
An EMPIRES Special. From a small Italian community in 15th Century Florence, the Medici family would rise to become one of the most powerful dynasties in Europe.
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Jan 1, 2009 · A dazzling history of the modest family which rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power, money and ambition. Against the background of an age which saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning Paul Strathern explores the intensely dramatic rise and fall of the Medici family in Florence, as well as the Italian Renaissance which they did so much to sponsor and encourage.
With a taste for art and an eye for talent, Cosimo now commissions the finest craftsmen of his age. From Donatello and Lippi to Michelozzo and Gozzoli, magnificent work is produced in the name of ...
From a small Italian community in 15th century Florence, the Medici family would rise to rule Europe in many ways. Using charm, patronage, skill, duplicity a...
Paul Strathern studied philosophy at Trinity College, Dublin. He has lectured in philosophy and mathematics. He is a Somerset Maugham Prize-winning novelist; author of two series of books - Philosophers in 90 Minutes and The Big Idea: Scientists who Changed the World; as well as Mendeleyev's Dream (shortlisted for the Aventis Science Book Prize); Dr. Strangelove's Game: A History of Economic Genius, The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance; The Artist, the Philosopher and the Warrior, Death ...
