Title: The House of Medici, its rise and fall /
Authors: Hibbert, Christopher, 1924-
Publisher: Morrow Quill Paperbacks,
Year: 1980
Subjects: Medici, House of.; Florence (Italy) History; Florence (Italy) Biography.
Abstract: An account of the fortunes and influences of the great Florentine banking family, covering over three hundred years of soldiers, art patrons, collectors, builders, popes, statesmen, and scholars.
Contents: 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 SAVIOR 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 -- 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.