{"id":67,"date":"2005-06-20T11:54:06","date_gmt":"2005-06-20T11:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alephnaught.wordpress.com\/2005\/06\/20\/god-and-money\/"},"modified":"2008-10-26T16:55:55","modified_gmt":"2008-10-26T23:55:55","slug":"god-and-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2005\/06\/20\/god-and-money\/","title":{"rendered":"God and Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-67\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/8822239393\/qid=1119382216\/sr=8-1\/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14\/102-9495726-4240950?v=glance&amp;s=books&amp;n=507846\" target=\"NewWindow\">God and Money: Florence and the Medici in the Renaissance<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Author: <\/strong>Richard Fremantle (Leo S. Oleschki Editore)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paperback: <\/strong>66 pages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher: <\/strong>Casa Editrice Leo S.Olschki (December, 1992)<\/li>\n<li><strong>ASIN: <\/strong>8822239393<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We bought <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">God and Money<\/span> in the upstairs bookstore at the Palazzo Pitti in Florence.<\/p>\n<p>This book discusses the struggle between money and the Church during the Renaissance.  Before the start of the Renaissance, Florence was a town in crisis.  As Cosimo de Medici rose and became a banker to the Popes, along with his son, Florence became a wealthy center of culture.  There are a number of interesting theories proposed, including that the churches in Florence in the 1420&#8217;s and 1430&#8217;s were pulling away from Rome, operating separately (for a while in excommunication due to the Great Schism).  It was this independence that led to the outpouring of culture during the later 1400&#8217;s; the return to strength of Rome in Florence then led to the Mannerists and the end of the Renaissance there (and the transfer of those ideals to northern Europe).<\/p>\n<p>This book is very very short but very good and an easy read I think.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-67\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 67);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-67\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-67\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: God and Money: Florence and the Medici in the Renaissance Author: Richard Fremantle (Leo S. Oleschki Editore) Paperback: 66 pages Publisher: Casa Editrice Leo S.Olschki (December, 1992) ASIN: 8822239393 We bought God and Money in the upstairs bookstore at the Palazzo Pitti in Florence. 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