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Title: The Rise and Decline of the Medici Bank: 1397-1494 by Raymond de Roover ISBN: 1-893122-32-8 Publisher: Beard Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: If you think business isn't interesting, read this
Comment: This was truly a life-changing book for me when I read it 25-30 years ago. Up til then I had thought of myself as a kind of Bohemian, more interested in the arts and "higher things" than anything like business. At the time I was a penniless freelance writer, working in a library job that bored me. I was attracted to the book by the Renaissance Italy theme, but what I found was quite a revelation.
The Medici engaged in some of the same sorts of sophisticated financial transactions that people use today -- including currency arbitrage and venture capital. But since the objects of the transactions were very concrete, physical things (coins, precious stones, etc.), it's easy to get a good understanding of what they were doing. That's how I got interested in business, and ultimately into a career as a corporate lawyer and venture capitalist.
I also learned that many of the familiar masterpieces of Renaissance painting in museums around the world had been commissioned by branch managers of the Medici Bank. When the Medici found out that one of their managers had commissioned a painting, they figured his head had gotten too big, and they fired him. Very entertaining history!
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Title: A History of Business in Medieval Europe 1200-1550 (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks by Edwin S. Hunt, James Murray ISBN: 0521499232 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 28 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall by Christopher Hibbert ISBN: 0688053394 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 02 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages, 950-1350 by Robert S. Lopez ISBN: 0521290465 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 26 March, 1976 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Banking and Business in the Roman World (Key Themes in Ancient History) by Jean Andreau, P. A. Cartledge, P. D. A. Garnsey, Janet Lloyd ISBN: 0521389321 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 14 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Renaissance Florence by Gene Brucker ISBN: 0520046951 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1983 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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