The House of Medici, its rise and fall / Christopher Hibbert.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Morrow Quill Paperbacks, 1980.Edition: 1st Morrow Quill pbk. edDescription: 364 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0688003397
- 0688053394 (pbk.)
- Rise and fall of the House of Medici
- 945/.51/05 19
- DG737.42 .H53 1980
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First published in 1974 under title: The rise and fall of the House of Medici.
Includes index.
Includes Bibliography and indexes
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--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--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--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.
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