The House of Medici by Christopher Hibbert

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#4 The wives of Florentine merchants were famous for their lavish clothes, their elegance, and their pale skin. The stone houses of the well-to-do still presented a severe, even forbidding appearance to the street, but behind the glazed and curtained windows, the rooms were often carpeted, painted, and hung with tapestries. #3 The Florentine people were known for their frugality, but they had become more extravagant in recent years. The area around the Orsanmichele, the communal granary, was the bankers' district in summer. #2 The city was very congested around the stone bridge, the Ponte Vecchio, which spanned the Arno at its narrowest point. Sample Book Insights: #1 Florence in 1433 was a city of squares and towers, of busy, narrow, and twisting streets, of fortress-like palaces with massive stone walls and overhanging balconies, of old churches with geometrical patterns on their façades, and of abbeys and convents. A republican city-state funded by trade and banking, its bloody political scene was dominated by mercantile families, the most famous of which were the Medici. At its height Renaissance Florence was a centre of wealth, power and influence. Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Buy a used copy of The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici book by Christopher Hibbert.

The House of Medici by Christopher Hibbert