Tim Parks

Professor of Literature and Translation Tim Parks

An account of the Renaissance era's preeminent financiers describes how the Medicis built their fortune as money lenders in spite of the Catholic church's prohibition against usury, documenting the family's mastery of political, diplomatic, military, and metaphysical tools that enabled them to retain their wealth and become art patrons and nobles. 25,000 first printing.

Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-century Florence

Medici Money

The aim of the book is to savour the extent to which any text is driven by the language in which it is written, even when it departs from standard usage, when it seeks to achieve the status of literature.

Professor of Literature and Translation Tim Parks

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