The Medici - A Tale of Fifteen Generations

Dorset Press, 1975

Among the families who light up the course of history none shines with greater brilliance than the Medici. Bankers, soldiers, popes, sovereigns, despots, patrons of art and learning - by any measure they were remarkable and in some ways their achievements have never been equaled by the members of any other ruling house. James Cleugh sifts through the legend, the half-truth and prejudice that surround the Medici name to arrive at the facts of a family who governed Florence for three hundred years and whose legacy has haunted, and sometimes ennobled, the mind of man for centuries...

Note - Incription and stamp marks on first pages. Some marks to page edges and sun damage and marks on front cover.