the house of medici by christopher hibbert

Part one: Il quattrocento - Florence and the Florentines - The rise of the Medici - Enemies of the Albizzi - Exiles and masters - Archbishops and architects - War and peace - Artists and mourners - Part two: 1464-1492 - Piero the gouty - The young lorenzo - The pope and the pazzi - The saviour of Florence - The needle of the Italian compass - Lorenzo: patron, collector and poet - Part three: 1492-1537 - Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici and the friar from Ferrara - The excommunicant - Return of the Medici - 'Papa Leone!' - The march on Rome - Siege and murder - Part four: 1537-1743 - Duke Cosimo I - The heirs of Cosimo - Ferdinando II and the French princess - Cosimo III and the grand prince Ferdinando - The last of the Medici Includes bibliographical references (pages 338-345) and index

Originally published: The rise and fall of the House of Medici. Beginning in the early 1430s with the rise of the dynasty under the near-legendary Cosimo de Medici, it moves through their golden era as patrons of some of the most remarkable artists and architects of the Renaissance, to the era of the Medici Popes and Grand Dukes, Florence's slide into decay and bankruptcy, and the end, in 1737, of the Medici line This enthralling book charts the family's huge influence on the political, economic and cultural history of Florence. A republican city-state funded by trade and banking, its often bloody political scene was dominated by rich mercantile families, the most famous of which were the Medici. Wikimedia Commons có thêm hình ảnh và phương tiện truyền tải về Lorenzo de' Medici.At its height, Renaissance Florence was a center of enormous wealth, power, and influence. Robin Maxwell, Signora da Vinci (NAL Trade, 2009), a novel that follows Leonardo da Vinci's mother, Caterina, as she travels to Florence to be with her son.Williamson, Hugh Ross, Lorenzo the Magnificent.

Peter Barenboim, Michelangelo Drawings - Key to the Medici Chapel Interpretation (Moscow, Letny Sad, 2006) ISBN 5-98856-016-4, is a new interpretation of Lorenzo the Magnificent' image in the Medici Chapel.

Kent, Lorenzo de- Medici and the Art of Magnificence (The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History) (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004) A summary of 40 years of research with a specific theme of Il Magnifico's relationship with the visual arts.

Christopher Hibbert, The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall (Morrow-Quill, 1980) is a highly readable, non-scholarly general history of the family, and covers Lorenzo's life in some detail.

Unger, Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de' Medici (Simon and Schuster 2008) is a vividly colorful new biography of this true 'renaissance man', the uncrowned ruler of Florence during its golden age.

^ Gene Brucker, Living on the Edge in Leonardo's Florence, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005), pp.

Lorenzo De' Medici and the Art of Magnificence.

The house of medici by christopher hibbert