SHIPPING / HANDLING: All purchases will be shipped with tracking number for confirmation via USPS media mail unless otherwise requested, with special care taken during packing to ensure you receive the books as described. *** See our other listings foradditional Fine Collectable offerings Book spines are sewn, not glued, for lasting strength.Pages sewn in sections of 16 which allows the book to open flat.Bound in full Jacquard clothwith artistic design.He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the author of many books, including Disraeli, Edward VII, George IV, The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici, and Cavaliers and Roundheads.ĭescribed by Professor Sir John Plumb as "a writer of the highest ability and in the New Statesman as "a pearl of biographers," he established himself as a leading popular historian/biographer whose works reflected meticulous scholarship.Įxclusive Folio Society Fine Quality Editions Beginning in the early 1430s with the rise of the dynasty under the near-legendary Cosimo de Medici, it moves through their golden era as patrons of some of the most remarkable artists and architects of the Renaissance, to the era of the Medici Popes and Grand Dukes, Florence's slide into decay and bankruptcy, and the end, in 1737, of the Medici line.Ĭhristopher Hibbert (MaDecember 21 2008) was an English writer, historian and biographer. This enthralling book charts the family's huge influence on the political, economic and cultural history of Florence.
A republican city-state funded by trade and banking, its often bloody political scene was dominated by rich mercantile families, the most famous of which were the Medici. If you sound your trumpets, we will ring our bells.- Christopher HibbertĪt its height, Renaissance Florence was a center of enormous wealth, power, and influence. Never Read - Offering from a pet and smoke-free home Nicely embossed on half title page (photo 4)
Illustrated with multiple color paintings The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici.
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