{"product_id":"9781786691538","title":"The Medici","description":"Author: Hollingsworth, Mary\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781786691538\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Apr 2019\u003cbr\u003ePages: 480 Format: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This forensic study of the Renaissance banking dynasty conjures up a world of art, literature, philosophy     and brutality'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Likely to become the standard work of reference on the members of the family that dominated Florence'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A lucid and beautifully illustrated family history'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWealthy bankers, wise politicians, patrons of the arts, glittering dukes... so runs the traditional telling of the story of the Medici, the family that ruled Florence for two hundred years and inspired the birth of the Italian Renaissance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this definitive account of their rise and fall, Mary Hollingsworth argues that the idea that the Medici were wise rulers and enlightened fathers of the Renaissance is a fiction. In truth, she says, the Medici were as devious and immoral as the Borgias     tyrants loathed in the city they illegally made their own and which they beggared in their lust for power.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46631844642974,"sku":"UBD-9781786691538","price":39.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781786691538.jpg?v=1774310055","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781786691538","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}