The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici (Chinese Edition)

At its height Renaissance Florence was a centre of enormous wealth, power and influence. 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. This enthralling book charts the family's huge influence on the political, economic and cultural history of Florence. 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. Ben shu nei rong shi yu 15 shi ji 30 nian dai, mei di qi wang chao zai jin hu chuan qi de ke xi mo{692126}de{692126}mei di qi de ling dao xia jue qi, zhong jian jing li le ta men zuo wei wen yi fu xing shi qi yi xie zui wei da de yi shu jia he jian zhu shi de zi zhu zhe de huang jin shi dai, zai dao mei di qi jia zu de ge wei jiao huang he da gong tong zhi de shi dai, zhi zhi fo luo lun sa xian ru shuai bai yu po chan yi ji 1737 nian mei di qi jia zu xue mai de zhong jie