TY - BOOK AU - Hale,J.R. TI - Florence and the Medici / SN - 1842124560 AV - 324 DG 737.42 H162f 2001 U1 - 945/.5105/0922 PY - 2001/// CY - London PB - Phoenix KW - Medici, Casa de KW - Florencia (Italia) KW - Historia KW - 1421-1737 N1 - Previously published: London : Thames & Hudson, 1977; Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-202) and index N2 - The enduring fascination of the Medici springs from their ability--as individuals and as a family--to control the government of Florence, first as a quasi-democracy and finally through inheritance. Based on the latest research, this perceptive study, by one of the finest Renaissance scholars of the day, reveals the causes and the nature of the Medicis' power of patronage from the early 15th-century through the early 18th UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/orion051/2002327033.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/ste021/2002327033.html ER -