The devil's broker: seeking gold, God and glory in fourteenth-century Italy

di Frances Stonor Saunders

2004 · 396 pagine · HarperCollins · ISBN 9780060777296

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First, though, there was an ordeal to pass through, one worthy of the imagination of Dante. Unleashed by a pause in the cataclysmic Hundred Years' War, hordes of soldiers with an appetite for pillage swooped down on the opulent city-states of Italy -- bloated with gold from trade and the birth of the modern banking industry -- and commenced to unburden them of their wealth.

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