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Paul Strathern
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- 1Readers revisit Paul Strathern's history of the Medici●The Medici: Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance by Paul Strathern, 2016 A vivid and dramatic account o
Paul Strathern's 2016 book The Medici: Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance is drawing fresh attention from readers, who praise it as a vivid, dramatic account of the family that became one of the most powerful forces in Italian history. The book traces the Medici's rise through banking, political influence and patronage of Renaissance art, and is being recommended as an accessible, engaging piece of popular history.