Reddit reviews The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall
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Historical books are a chore if we're talking academia, so don't go into them too fresh. Renaissance Italy is not my forte so I dug around on google, here's some that may be interesting:
Calamities and the Economy in Renaissance Italy, Guido Alfani
This one is a bit too expensive for the content it offers, but from a quick skim on Google Books preview, it seems worth looking over if your local library has it in stock. Author credibility is okay, not one of the 'big names' though. Economic history is interesting to look at, especially when you put it in context of the "big" historical events such as war or famine.
The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall, Christopher Hibbert
This is a good one, very cheap and by a well known historian. Its one to keep around for sure, however, it seems to stray from the timeline of AC2. Still worth a read nonetheless.
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The Borgias and Their Enemies, 1431–1519, Christopher Hibbert
Another one by Hibbert, stalk this dude, he seems to know his Renaissance.
We have The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall, or, if you are interested in only a single member of the family, Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de' Medici is good as well.
Quote is from Machiavelli if I'm not mistaken.
Just finished this book last night. Fantastic read on how to navigate a totalitarian rule in a state, that perceived itself as a democracy at the time.
While watching the Showtime series 'The Borgias' I got an interest in this period of Italian history. Pope Alexander and his brood, Leonardo, Michaelangelo, Machiavelli, the Medici. I knew enough that i could not trust any of what was being dramatized in that series (or in "Borgia" the later European series shown on Netflix that I watched later) as being historically accurate but I didn't know what I couldn't trust. Very frustrating.
So I read "The Borgias And Their Enemies" (more or less orthodox history), "The Borgias: The Hidden History" (very revisionist history, more or less endorsing the very sympathetic portrayals in the TV series), "The House of Medici: Its Rise And Fall" and I torrented a PDF copy of 'A Journey Into Michelangelo's Rome." As someone with just a casual interest in that time and place and no previous academic background in either, I would recommend all of them.