Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence by Tim Parks

Italy and Italians

Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence

Tim Parks

273 pages paperback 2006

11 editions

nonfiction economics history challenging informative slow-paced
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Before they achieved renown as patrons of the arts and de facto rulers of Florence, the Medici family earned their fortune in banking. But even at the height of the Renaissance, charging interest of any kind meant running afoul of the Catholic Chu...

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