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This book is a study of William de la Pole, the first English royal
banker. E. B. Fryde discusses Pole's role as a merchant and
financier, his political influence and the social preeminence he
gained for himself and his family. The book addresses the growing
significance of England's merchant class in financial and
governmental affairs and examines the origins of one of the
country's great families of the late medieval period.
Edmund Fryde provides a general account of the attempt to revive
and surpass the standards of classical historiography and charts
its progress. The career of Politian, the librarian of Lorenzo the
Magnificent, illustrates the advance in scholarship during the
fifteenth century. Using new evidence from the Vatican Library the
author demonstrates that Lorenzo's library can be largely
reconstructed and that a wealth of manuscripts was already
available in his time.
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