Medici Ascendancy

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Head Of Zeus
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 2019
Edition: First Edition

Description: 441 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Financiers of kings, godfathers of the Renaissance, arbiters of peace or war: Emperors in all but name. The first instalment in a trilogy charting the rise of Medici family as they become Masters of Florence. Florence, 1429 Giovanni de Medici is dead. A lifetime of shrewd investment, strategic alliance and sly manipulation saw Giovanni climb from mere money-lender to the top echelon of Florentine society. But success has left a slew of bitter enemies in his wake - and there are whispers his untimely demise wasnt accidental. Florence is a nest of vipers, and with the Medici familys wealth in the hands of Giovannis untested sons, Cosimo and Lorenzo, there are those who feel that now is the time to strike, to destroy the upstarts and seize their holdings. First in an award-winning, bestselling quartet charting ten generations of rise to power.

ISBN: 9781786692108