572. The Medici: Masters of Florence (Part 1)

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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.'

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Described as 'a great book and actually quite a caustic book about the Medici,' cited for pointing out the inventory of Cosimo's library in his late 20s and for her observations about the Medici's network of newcomer families.

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Referenced for Vasari's account of how Cosimo had to lock the painter Filippo Lippi in his room to get him to finish his paintings, as Lippi was constantly overcome by lust.