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Medici men in suits Even bankers could be Renaissance men, says Paul Strathern
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WHEN THE FLORENTINE mob invaded the Medici Palace in 1494 it
destroyed most of the records of the Medici Bank. Those that survive
still have burn marks. As the novelist and Italian football fan Tim
Parks argues in his witty and penetrating new book, Medici Money, it
was the family bank and the vast wealth it produced which brought the
Medici to power and covertly helped them maintain this power. It also
enabled them to patronise the architects and artists, as well as many
of the scholars, who played such a leading role in the early
Florentine Renaissance.
Despite the gaps in the Medici ...
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