Enterprise Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence, Book 0, (Paperback)

from ksinats

The very thing that made the Medici rich (usury)made them vulnerable. The antidote, emblematic of the pragmatist patriarch Cosimo Medici, was to link their wealth to the public, cultural good. The other centrepiece in this story is the Renaissance with its accompanying inquiry into the nature of ...

from kukulaj

This was a great fun book. It's an easy introduction to 15th Century Florence. I've read bits and pieces here and there about that time and place, but this book put the pieces together nicely. Of course it is not a long book and not a dense book either, so it is far from comprehensive. Really it ...

from morien

A pretentious title to a moderately well written but sometimes poorly edited book. Because unnatural. Yup, that's what got printed on page 193. Plus the author seems to have equated religion or the Catholic Church of the time with metaphyiscs. Or he just wanted to sound fancy. I think the book wo...

from adamclaxton

Tim Parks Medici Money is a somewhat peculiar look at the famed Medici family of renaissance Italy and the banking organization they were most recognized for. The book suffers from rather poor editing, with timeline jumps, poor sentencing and at times overbearing waffle - his explanation of monet...