The House of Medici
Its Rise and Fall
[United States] : Tantor Audio : Made available through hoopla, 2016.
Format: Eaudiobook
Edition: Unabridged.
Description: 1 online resource (1 audio file (11hr., 18 min.)) : digital.
At its height, Renaissance Florence was a center of enormous wealth, power, and influence. 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. This enthralling book charts the family's huge influence on the political, economic and cultural history of Florence. Beginning in the early 1430s with the rise of the dynasty under the near-legendary Cosimo de Medici, it moves through their golden era as patrons of some of the most remarkable artists and architects of the Renaissance, to the era of the Medici Popes and Grand Dukes, Florence's slide into decay and bankruptcy, and the end, in 1737, of the Medici line.
Subjects:
Medici, House of.
Florence (Italy) -- History -- 1421-1737.
Florence (Italy) -- Biography.
Medici, House of.
Florence (Italy) -- History -- 1421-1737.
Florence (Italy) -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781515993025 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
Electronic resource.
Digital content provided by hoopla.
Read by Michael Page.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Digital content provided by hoopla.
Read by Michael Page.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.