This study of Renaissance adventures and struggles against fate
brings to life a brilliant age and its exemplars. It is a story of
how several men, including Julius II, worked, intrigued, and made
business deals against the backdrop of an Italy invaded by
continental countries and England. The future of the once great
Republic of Venice was at stake as it was besieged and in desperate
need of allies. The Papacy switched sides, breaking the seemingly
invincible and mostly foreign League of Cambrai, and saw that
Venice was offered a loan by Agostino Chigi, the richest man of his
time. The Pope's banker, as daring as Julius II, negotiated with
the formidable communal rulers of Venice and Italy was kept from
further dismemberment.
As a dramatic account that brings together diplomacy, war,
business, and politics, viewed through one long entrepreneurial
venture, this book is unique. It juxtaposes differing institutional
structures and the various political ways among Italy's city
states; it also brings into sharp focus the new men of the
Renaissance. Their dealings and lifestyles were original and bold.
They were successful against great odds and flaunted their new
wealth and position in society in building great palaces and
estates and becoming patrons of art. Felix Gilbert is a master
teacher of history, and his new work is as luminous as the men and
events he tells about.
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