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Краткое содержание: Жизнеописания ранних Медичи
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A banker's wife frets over a cape and a boy begs for a pony, while politics runs through the Medici letters.
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- Около 8 h 35 min6 h 45 min fast, 10 h 10 min slow
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- Слов: 122 100
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- Средний longer sentences, everyday words
- Первая публикация
- 1910by Джанет Росс (редактор)
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Жизнеописания ранних Медичи in short
The book follows one family across about a century, mostly in its own words. It starts with a tangle of legends and a plain record of guild citizens who rose by being useful and quiet. Cosimo turns a bank into a state and survives exile.
What Жизнеописания ранних Медичи is about
What did the first Medici sound like when nobody was watching? A mother scolds her son for not asking sooner for his lynx-lined cape. A boy begs his father for a pony, over and over. A ruler mourns his wife in the same careful hand he uses for treaties.
Lives of the Early Medici was put together by Janet Ross and published in London in 1910. She gathered private letters, diaries and dispatches from the Florentine archives and translated them for English readers. She wanted the people back, with their households, illnesses, jokes and quarrels. The book follows four generations, from Cosimo to Lorenzo the Magnificent.
Для кого. You will enjoy this if you like the Italian Renaissance seen from inside the home, or if letters and diaries draw you more than speeches.
The 10 key ideas
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The Medici begin as guild citizens, not nobles
The book opens with a family whose origins nobody can pin down. Enemies say a charcoal burner started the line. Friends claim descent from Perseus or from a knight who killed a giant for Charlemagne. Even the six red balls on the shield get many explanations.
The documents give a plainer path. By 1291 a Medici, Ardingo, held high office in Florence. A law of 1293 excluded nobles from office, so the family were not old nobility. Salvestro de Medici backed the common guilds in the Ciompi riot of 1378, and the Medici were seen as defenders of ordinary citizens.
The true founder of the ruling line was Giovanni di Bicci, born in 1360. On his deathbed in 1429 he told his sons Cosimo and Lorenzo to be kind to the poor, to avoid party strife and not to draw attention to themselves. The family grew powerful by looking modest.
A fortune built on quiet is the first lesson of the Medici.
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Cosimo ran a bank and funded the world's books
Cosimo, born in 1389, was forty when his father died.
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Cosimo is jailed and exiled, then comes home
By 1433 the war against Lucca had drained the treasury, and Cosimo's rival Rinaldo degli Albizzi had the nobles on his side.
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Contessina's letters show a household behind the banker
The letters of Contessina de Bardi, Cosimo's wife, are the book's warmest early finds.
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Cosimo's last years bring grief and a good death
In the 1450s Cosimo made allies of states.
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Piero the Gouty survives a plot against him
Piero, born in 1416, was forty-eight when Cosimo died.
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Lorenzo marries into the Orsini family
In 1467 Piero chose a bride for Lorenzo from the Orsini, a proud Roman house.
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Lorenzo rules as poet, friend and family man
Piero died in 1469, and two days later the leading men of Florence asked twenty-year-old Lorenzo to take charge.
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The Pazzi plot and war push Lorenzo to Naples
By the 1470s Pope Sixtus IV and his nephew Girolamo Riario had turned against the Medici.
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Lorenzo's final years end in grief and two stories
In the 1480s Lorenzo's mediation kept Italy's powers in balance.
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What is Lives of the Early Medici about?
It tells the story of the Medici from Giovanni di Bicci through Cosimo, Piero and Lorenzo the Magnificent, using their letters and diaries. It shows how they ran a bank, ruled Florence and raised their families.
Who wrote the letters in this book?
Many are by Cosimo, Contessina, Lucrezia, Piero and Lorenzo. Others come from popes, kings, poets such as Poliziano and Pulci, ambassadors, doctors and children. Janet Ross translated and edited them.
Why was Lorenzo called the Magnificent?
The preface explains that Your Magnificence was a courtesy given to many well-born people. It was no special award. The title fitted Lorenzo so well that it became his own.
What was the Pazzi conspiracy?
It was a plot of 1478 to kill Lorenzo and his brother Giuliano during a cathedral service, backed by Girolamo Riario and others. The book tells it through confessions, letters and Poliziano's account.
Как сослаться на это издание
Lives of the Early Medici. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/lives-of-the-early-medici.
Lives of the early Medici. (2026). Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/lives-of-the-early-medici (Original work published 1910)
Lives of the Early Medici. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/lives-of-the-early-medici.
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