Christopher Hibbert

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Dominic references Christopher Hibbert's popular history of this period multiple times, citing his pen portraits including descriptions of Maddalena and Franceschetto, and quoting him on how most Florentines had 'food, exciting public holidays and justice.'

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Described as a 'brilliant book on the Medici' by a 'great popular historian of the 60s and 70s,' quoted for his description of Medici Florence's government being 'carried on mainly by the rich and almost exclusively in their own interests.'