MEDICI: GODFATHERS OF THE RENAISSANCE (PB)

A dazzling piece of Italian history of the infamous family that become one of the most powerful in Europe, weaving its history with Renaissance greats from Leonardo da Vinci to Galileo. Paul Strathern paints a vivid narrative of the dramatic rise and fall of the Medici family in Florence as well as the fortunes of the two Medici popes and Catherine de' Médicis, who became Queen of France.