Medici Money
by Tim Parks (9781861977915)

The Medici faced two apparently insuperable problems: how did a banker deal with that fact that the Church regarded interest as a sin and had made it illegal? How, in a small republic like Florence, could he avoid having his wealth taken away by taxation? But the bank became indispensable to the Church. And the family completely subverted Florence's claims to being democratic. They ran the city.Medici Moneyexplores a crucial moment in the passage from the Middle Ages to the Modern World, a moment when our own attitudes to money and morals were being formed. To read this book is to understand how much the Renaissance has to tell us about our own world.Medici Moneyis one of the launch titles in a new series, Atlas Books, edited by James Atlas. Atlas Bookspairs fine writers with stories of the economic forces that have shaped the world, in a new genre - the business book as literature.

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