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At its peak Renaissance Florence was a center of huge power, wealth and impact. A republican city state financed by industry and bank, its frequently soft political landscape was dominated by wealthy mercantile households, the absolute most well-known which were the Medici. This book maps the family’s large impact on the economical, political and social background of Florence. From the first 1430s together with the increase of the empire underneath the near-renowned Cosimo de Medici, it goes through their fantastic era as customers of a few of the most memorable designers and designers of the Renaissance, for the era of the Medici Popes and Great Dukes, Florence’s slip into decay and bankruptcy, and the finish, in 1737, of the Medici point.