Medici family: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
Among many historians and memorialists contemporary with the Medici, Niccolò Machiavelli, Francesco Guicciardini, and, to a lesser degree, Scipione Ammirato cannot be dispensed with. Modern works, for a general view, include G.F. Young, The Medici, 2 vol. (1909, reprinted 1933; Italian trans. 1935; French trans. 1969), dated but still useful; Albert Jourcin, Les Médicis (1968; German trans. 1969); Gaetano Pieraccini, La stirpe de’ Medici di Cafaggiolo, 2nd ed., 3 vol. (1947), extensive researches on the hereditary features and diseases that run in the Medici family; and Marcel Brion, Le Siècle des Médicis (1969; The Medici: A Great Florentine Family, 1969). On institutions and banking, Nicolai Rubinstein, The Government of Florence Under the Medici, 1434 to 1494 (1966), based on a masterly examination of the Florentine archives, is fundamental; while Raymond de Roover, The Rise and Decline of the Medici Bank, 1397–1494 (1963), excellently clears up a difficult matter.
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| Modified link of Web site: The Galileo Project - The Medici Family. | Oct 03, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: eScholarship - Love and Marriage: Emotion and Sexuality in the Early Medici Family (PDF). | Mar 26, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Ancient Origins - The Medici Dynasty: Unraveling the Legacy of the Masters of Florence. | Jun 20, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Minneapolis Institute of Art - Meet the Medicis: The mad, marvelous family behind the Italian Renaissance. | Mar 28, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Art in Context - Medici Family � Who were the Medicis, the Famous Art Family? | Jun 20, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Catholic Online - House of Medici. | May 12, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Official Site of the Medici Family. | Nov 20, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: Art Encyclopedia - The Medici Family, Florence. | Sep 05, 2022 | ||
| Added cross-references. | Nov 12, 2020 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | May 02, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Catholic Encyclopedia - House of Medici. | Apr 25, 2019 | ||
| Article revised to remove dated language. | Aug 01, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: History World - History of the Medici. | Sep 15, 2011 | ||
| Added new Web site: HistoryNet - Russo-Japanese War: Japans First Big Surprise. | Oct 31, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: The Catholic Encyclopedia - House of Medici. | Feb 28, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: The Galileo Project - The Medici Family. | Feb 19, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: Devillier Donegan Enterprises - Medici - Godfathers of the Renaissance. | Feb 15, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: United States History - Smoot-Hawley Tariff. | Feb 15, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: Buzzle.com - Characteristics of Angiosperm. | Sep 13, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: PBS Online - Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance. | Jun 21, 2006 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |