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. He died from bronchial pneumonia on Decemat the age of 84.At its height Renaissance Florence was a centre of enormous wealth, power and influence. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Geographical Society, and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Literature by the University of Leicester.
Hibbert was awarded the Heinemann Award for Literature in 1962 for The Destruction of Lord Raglan. He wrote more than 60 books throughout his lifetime including The Road to Tyburn (1957), Il Duce: The Life of Benito Mussolini(1962), George IV: Prince of Wales, 1762-1811 (1972), and George IV: Regent and King, 1812-1830 (1973). Before becoming a full-time nonfiction writer, he worked as a real estate agent and a television critic for Truth magazine. He served with the London Irish Rifles and won the Military Cross.
He dropped out of Oriel College to join the Army. With twenty-four pages of black-and-white illustrations, this timeless saga is one of Quill's strongest-selling paperbacks.Ĭhristopher Hibbert: Ma- DecemHistorian Christopher Hibbert was born as Arthur Raymond Hibbert in Enderby, England in 1924. "The House of Medici" picks up where Barbara Tuchman's Hibbert delves into the lives of the Medici family, whose legacy of increasing self-indulgence and sexual dalliance eventually led to its self-destruction. It was the house of Medici, patrons of Botticelli, Michelangelo and Galileo, benefactors who turned Florence into a global power center, and then lost it all. It shaped all of Europe and controlled politics, scientists, artists, and even popes, for three hundred years. It was a dynasty with more wealth, passion, and power than the houses of Windsor, Kennedy, and Rockefeller combined.
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