Paul Strathern-Medici. Godfathers of the Renaissance. Gift book bound in leather

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Medici family. It gave the Renaissance many bright personalities-patrons of the Sciences and arts and prominent statesmen. Representatives of the Medici family ruled the rebellious "cradle of the Renaissance" Florence and occupied the throne of St. Peter, and Catherine de ' Medici became the strongest and most powerful Queen in the history of France… But how did a humble banking family achieve political power and a Ducal crown? How to build relations with the Medici the greatest men of their era - Galileo and Michelangelo, Donatello and by Pico della Mirandola, Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael, Botticelli and the furious reformer of the Roman Catholic Church by Savonarola?

Floor Strathern in his brilliant study reveals the role of the Medici in the formation and development of not only Italian but also European Renaissance - a role not always clear, but always meaningful.