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Author Hibbert, Christopher, 1924-2008.

Title The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici / Christopher Hibbert
Published Harmondsworth, Eng. : Penguin, 1979
1979

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Description 368pages : illustrations
regular print
Contents Il quattrocento -- 1464-1492 -- 1492-1537 -- 1537-1743
Summary It was a dynasty with more wealth, passion, and power than the houses of Windsor, Kennedy, and Rockefeller combined. It shaped all of Europe and controlled politics, scientists, artists, and even popes, for three hundred years. It was the house of Medici, patrons of Botticelli, Michelangelo and Galileo, benefactors who turned Florence into a global power center, and then lost it all. The House of Medici picks up where Barbara Tuchman's Hibbert delves into the lives of the Medici family, whose legacy of increasing self-indulgence and sexual dalliance eventually led to its self-destruction. With twenty-four pages of black-and-white illustrations, this timeless saga is one of Quill's strongest-selling paperbacks
Analysis Florence (Italy) - Biography
Florence (Italy) - History - 1421-1737
Italy Florence Medici (Family), ca 1400-1743
Medici, House of
Notes Originally published: London : Allen Lane, 1974
Bibliography Includes bibliography (pages 338-345) and index
Subject Medici family
Medici, House of.
Medici family
SUBJECT Florence (Italy) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85049194
Florence (Italy) -- Biography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115035
Florence (Italy) -- History -- 1421-1737. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85049196
Genre/Form Biographies.
LC no. isb14005090
ISBN 0140050906