[PDF.62qn] Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence (Enterprise)

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

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 | #149186 in Books |  W W Norton Company |  2006-05-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.00 x.80 x5.40l,.57 | File type: PDF | 288 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| A staunch neoliberal view that would please the rich conservatives that still like to play with art and high culture|By Fra|One of the very few books that I have thrown away after reading it. Gossip applied to the Renaissance. It's banks and money that made the Renaissance, "no less": not cultural tradition, not a sense of virtue, not the interaction of religion and classicism.|From Publishers Weekly|Starred . The Renaissance, so often seen as a clean break with the medieval past, was really an age of creative ambivalence and paradox. In this marvelously fresh addition to the Enterprise series, Parks, author of the Booker-listed Eu

“A swift and brilliant synthesis of finance, politics, and history.”―Ben Sisario, New York Times Book Review

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 Church’s ban on usury. Tim Parks reveals how the legendary Medicis―...

You easily download any file type for your device.Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence (Enterprise)   |  Tim Parks. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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