The Family Medici : the hidden history of the Medici dynasty /
"Having founded the bank that became the most powerful in Europe in the fifteenth century, the Medici gained massive political power in Florence, raising the city to a peak of cultural achievement and becoming its hereditary dukes. Among their number were no fewer than three popes and a powerfu...
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New York :
Mary Hollingsworth,
Ã2018.
Pegasus Books Ltd., [2018] |
| Edition: | First Pegasus books hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: A city under siege : 'Florence in ashes rather than under the Medici'
- Migrants : Bonagiunta, Chiarissimo and their descendants, 1216-1348
- Survivors : Salvestro, Foligno, Bicci and Vieri, 1348-1400
- The fortune : Giovanni di Bicci, 1400-1425
- Politics : Giovanni di Bicci, Averardo and Cosimo, 1426-1433
- For honour and profit : Cosimo the banker, 1434-1450
- The republican toga : Cosimo the politician, 1451-1464
- The succession crisis : Piero the Gouty, 1464-1469
- Youth at the helm : Lorenzo and Giuliano, 1469-1479
- Pride : Lorenzo the Magnificent, 1480-1492
- Nemesis : Piero and Cardinal Giovanni, 1492-1503
- Exile : Cardinal Giovanni, Giulio and Giuliano, 1504-1512
- Age of gold : Pope Leo X, 1513-1521
- Age of iron : Pope Clement VII, 1521-1530
- Imperial poodles : Pope Clement VII, Ippolito, Alessandro and Cosimo, 1531-1543
- The new Augustus : Cosimo I, 1544-1559
- Grand Duke : Cosimo I, 1560-1574
- Adultery : Francesco I and Cardinal Ferdinando, 1574-1587
- Cardinal to Grand Duke : Ferdinando I, 1587-1609
- The unlucky prince : Cosimo II, Christine of Lorraine and Maria Magdalena of Austria, 1609-1628
- Science and religion : Ferdinando II, 1628-1670
- Vanity : Cosimo III, 1670-1723
- Extinction : Gian Gastone, 1723-1737
- Epilogue: Revival.