Medici Money (eBook)

Tim Parks has lived in Italy since 1981. He is the author of eleven novels, three accounts of life in Italy, two collections of essays and many translations of Italian writers.

An erudite and profound examination of the Renaissance banking family.

Highlights the excesses and successes of the Florentine Renaissance and charts the glittering ascendancy of one entrepreneurial family against the backdrop of a unique Italian bank.

The fabulous banking boys...fascinating and intricate.

Successfully captures the spirit of the age, and brings alive the characters of Cosimo and Lorenzo, two men whose story remains as fascinating now as it was to their contemporary friends and enemies.

Parks brings a novelist's flair to his task and comes out as a hip and snappy narrator.

Parks, who is sceptical about bankers, writes about them with pace, wit and some passion.

Straight-forward, readable, interesting and witty account of the rise and fall of one of the world's first banks ... A fascinating tale.

Successfully captures the spirit of the age and brings alive the characters of Cosimo and Lorenzo, two men whose story remains as fascinating now as it was to their comtemporary friends and enemies.

Witty and penetrating ... Parks deftly unravels these complexities, illustrating both their benefits and the pitfalls with illuminating detail ... Tim Parks recounts the Medicis' story with an infectious enthusiasm. His own conjuring trick is to tell this grand saga, with all its chicanery, in a clear and lucid style.

A book which is as lively as it is learned.

Lucky for Italy that Tim Parks decided to live there and write about his new home. His books instruct and entertain. His acute sense of people and history now comes to grand fruition in his tome on the Medici, a gift to anyone who has been dazzled by Florence. Splendid reading

Tim Parks proves a delightful guide to both the Florentine Renaissance and the family history of one of Europe's greatest dynasties. In Medici Money he wears his considerable learning with refreshing lightness, giving us a wise and witty meditation on money, art and power, Renaissance-style

A straightforward, readable, interesting and witty account of the rise and fall of one of the world's first banks ... A fasinating tale.

Tim Parks retells the story with a hugely readable breadth and insight.