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The Borgias: History's Most Notorious Dynasty by Mary Hollingsworth
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The Borgias have become a byword for pride, lust, cruelty, avarice, splendour and venomous intrigue. An inspiration for many works of fiction, most famously Mario Puzo's The Godfather, they have aroused abomination and fascination in almost equal measure, while their patronage of the arts created some o ...Show more
The Medici by Mary Hollingsworth
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'This forensic study of the Renaissance banking dynasty conjures up a world of art, literature, philosophy - and brutality' Telegraph 'Likely to become the standard work of reference on the members of the family that dominated Florence' TLS 'A lucid and beautifully illustrated family history' The Times ...Show more
The Medici by Mary Hollingsworth
$59.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
Having founded the bank that became the most powerful in Europe in the fifteenth century, the Medici gained political power in Florence, raising the city to a peak of cultural achievement and becoming its hereditary dukes. Among their number were no fewer than three popes and a powerful and influential ...Show more
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