Medici Money: Banking, metaphysics and art in fifteenth-century Florence
The remarkable story of the Renaissance's preeminent financiers. "A swift and brilliant synthesis of finance, politics, and history."Ben Sisario, New York Times Book Review.
Their name is a byword for immense wealth and power, but before their renown as art patrons and noblemen the Medicis built their fortune on bankingspecifically, on lending money at interest. Banking in the fifteenth centu...