The family, the firm, and the faction THE RISE OF THE MEDICI By Kati (Katalin) Prajda

The family, the firm, and the faction THE RISE OF THE MEDICI By Kati (Katalin) Prajda https://www.academia.edu/165230169/The_family_the_firm_and_the_faction_THE_RISE_OF_THE_MEDICI?email_work_card=title What lay at the heart of the success of the Medici, one of the wealthiest non-aristo cratic families before the rise of the Fuggers, Rotschilds, and Rockefellers? The Medici were a family that built its reputation on a strong network of business partners, kin ship, political allies, and patronage. This article revisits some key aspects of the rise of the Medici family, its business agglom erate, and its political faction up to 1434 ...