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Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (220 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A tale of one family's ambition and of Europe's struggle to emerge from the ravages of the Dark Ages. The Medici used charm, skill and ruthlessness to garner unparalleled wealth and power, ruling Europe for more than 300 years.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (255 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Like a Renaissance painting come to life and gives a portrait of fifteenth-century Florence, ruled by the Medici political dynasty. Focuses on two of the city's leading citizens: banker Cosimo de' Medici and art theorist Leon Battista Alberti.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"A girl as beautiful as Simonetta Cattaneo never wants for marriage proposals in 15th Century Italy, but she jumps at the chance to marry Marco Vespucci. Marco is young, handsome and well-educated. Not to mention he is one of the powerful Medici family's favored circle. Even before her marriage with Marco is set, Simonetta is swept up into Lorenzo and Giuliano de' Medici's glittering circle of politicians, poets, artists, and philosophers. The men...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
430 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
"A dazzling history of the modest family that rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power, money, and ambition. Against the background of an age that saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning Paul Strathern explores the intensely dramatic rise and fall of the Medici family in Florence, as well as the Italian Renaissance which they did so much to sponsor and encourage."--Amazon.com.
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