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Title:
The House of Medici, its rise and fall / Christopher Hibbert.
Author:
Hibbert, Christopher, 1924-2008.
Publication Information:
New York : Perennial, 2003.
Call Number:
DG737.42 .H5 2003
Electronic Access:
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hc044/79026508.html
ISBN:
9780688053390
Physical Description:
364, [24] pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
General Note:
Originally published: The rise and fall of the House of Medici. Great Britain, 1974.

Reprint. Originally published: Quill, 1980.
Contents:
Part one: Il quattrocento -- Florence and the Florentines -- The rise of the Medici -- Enemies of the Albizzi -- Exiles and masters -- Archbishops and architects -- War and peace -- Artists and mourners -- Part two: 1464-1492 -- Piero the gouty -- The young lorenzo -- The pope and the pazzi -- The saviour of Florence -- The needle of the Italian compass -- Lorenzo: patron, collector and poet -- Part three: 1492-1537 -- Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici and the friar from Ferrara -- The excommunicant -- Return of the Medici -- "Papa Leone!" -- The march on Rome -- Siege and murder -- Part four: 1537-1743 -- Duke Cosimo I -- The heirs of Cosimo -- Ferdinando II and the French princess -- Cosimo III and the grand prince Ferdinando -- The last of the Medici.
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Uniform Title:
Rise and fall of the House of Medici
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