The fabulous banking boys
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1492908,00.html
Tim Parks paints a picture of a family on the edge of ruin in Medici
Money. Edmund Fawcett on the enduring mythology of a Renaissance
dynasty
Saturday May 28, 2005
The Guardian
Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics and Art in Fifteenth-Century
Florenceby Tim Parks
286pp, Profile, =A315.99
Despite the trail of financial and political failure they left, we
remember the Medici with dazzlement largely for two reasons. One is
that they were very good at landing on their feet. The other is they
were brilliant at spin.
Medicis
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