THE MEDICI

small, green, black & gilt full cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective brodart book jacket cover. vg cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. foredge has come coffee type stains, other edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in good cond. stains, wrinkled,missing couple of small pieces, not price clipped. nice old vintage copy. good binding, clean text. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. printing # not given. xxi+824p. chronology. list of works cited. endnotes. biography. medieval history. renaissance history. italian renaissance. history of christianity. ~The legends which have clustered about the most notable family in history are as various as the imaginations and prejudices of historians. Sinister crimes, magnificent liberalities, prodigal sponsorship of the arts, religious and orgiastic excesses have been attributed ~ indiscriminately ~ to the Medicis. It remained for G. F. Young to sift the proven facts from the exaggerations and to present a history so authentic and yet so colorful that its truth is more enthralling than all the fictions the centuries have allowed to accumulate around the most fabulous family of the Renaissance. …