Medici Money: Banking, metaphysics and art in fifteenth-century Florence

Medici, Damiano di Giovanni de’, 62, 91, 127

Medici, Filippo de’, 154

Medici, Francesco di Bicci, 20

Medici, Giovanni di Bicci de’, 2–3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 15, 19–20, 36, 54–55, 92, 159, 242

Albizzi family’s planned coup stopped by, 78

amount of bank profits taken by, 39

antiwar position of, 77

Bardi family and, 6

Bronzino’s portrait of, 27

death of, 84–85

early banking career of, 20, 22–23, 26, 55

elected head of Florentine government, 62

Giovanni XXIII and, 47–48, 51, 57

Medici bank founded by, 2–3, 11, 26, 38

Medici bank structured by, 48–51

retirement of, 38–39, 61

sons’ education and, 55

“stay out of the public eye” advice of, 3, 4, 27, 28

Medici, Giovanni di Cosimo de’, 61, 64, 125, 149, 150–52, 159–60, 168, 169, 171

Medici, Giovanni di Lorenzo, see Leo X, Pope

Medici, Giovanni di Pierfrancesco, 219–20

Medici, Giuliano di Piero, 205–6, 211, 214–16, 229

Medici, Laudamia Acciaiuoli, 156, 157

Medici, Lorenzo di Giovanni, 20, 97, 156

death of, 125

exile of, 98

humanist education of, 55

as Medici bank partner and director, 39, 83

on political power, 87

Medici, Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de’, 219–20

Medici, Lorenzo Il Magnifico de’, 5, 9, 165, 175, 180, 183–243

alum and, 190, 193, 198–99, 233

aristocratic aspirations of, 4, 203, 221–22

as art patron, 187

assassination plot against Giuliano di Piero Medici and, 206, 211–17, 219

birth of, 163

children of, 201, 208, 243

church incomes and, 233

as collector, 225

death of, 4, 241–43

education of, 163, 184, 189

excommunication and absolution of, 218, 223

Florence viewed as own personal work of art by, 208

gout suffered by, 4, 226, 240

humanism and, 206, 208

ignorance of banking declared by, 177

Il Magnifico title awarded to, 224

marriage of, 163, 167, 178, 192–93

Medici bank’s decline under, 4, 208, 213, 215, 218–20, 228–33

personality of, 203

physical appearance of, 189

as poet, 4, 184, 189–90, 191, 193, 201, 209–10, 239, 241

political power of, 4, 199–200, 209, 225–27

ricordi of, 183, 201

role of prince played by, 183–84

sculptures of, 191, 219

Volterra sacked by, 201–3

Medici, Lucrezia de’, 201

Medici, Lucrezia Tornabuoni de’, 162–63, 166, 167, 168, 202

Medici, Maddalena de’, 208, 226, 233

Medici, Piccarda Bueri de’, 20, 162

Medici, Pierfrancesco de’, 156, 157, 164, 219, 231

Medici, Piero di Cosimo de’, 3–4, 61, 64, 125, 129, 153, 165, 167, 190, 191

children of, 162–63

as collector, 160, 233

death of, 4, 177, 178, 183

ill health of, 3, 150, 151, 157, 163, 177

marriage of, 161–63, 168

Medici bank headed by, 156, 172–75

nickname of, 3

personal emblem of, 160

political education of, 159–60

political power of, 3, 155, 160, 163–67

principle of succession established by, 3, 153

Medici, Piero di Lorenzo de’, 243–45

birth of, 201

death of, 4

as “dumb son,” 243

flight from Florence of, 4, 9, 245

nickname of, 4

Medici, Silvestro de’, 7, 62

Medici, Vieri di Cambio de’, 20, 26

Medici bank:

alum affair and, see alum

Ancona branch of, 116, 117

Avignon branch of, 170, 232

Basle branch of, 113

branch directors of, 49–50, 170–71, 175, 177, 228

branch staffs of, 49

Bruges branch of, 114, 116, 120, 135, 174–77, 179, 197, 198, 213, 220, 228, 229, 231–32

condottiere and, 79

under Cosimo de’ Medici, 3, 61, 64, 66, 73, 83, 91–92, 107–20, 149–50, 171–72

debt bonds and, 81

decline and collapse of, 2, 4–5, 110, 167, 170–83, 208, 213, 215, 218–20, 228–33, 246–47

dry exchanges and, 46

Florence branch of, 49, 81, 83, 91, 94, 112, 171, 180, 217, 231, 232

foreign correspondents of, 42, 110, 114

founding of, 2, 11, 26, 38

Geneva branch of, 76–77, 91, 112–13, 115, 170, 175

under Giovanni de’ Medici, 2–3, 38–39, 47–51

Giovanni XXIII and, 47–48, 51–53

Good Men of San Martino and, 108

holding office of, 6, 48–49, 114, 115, 120, 149, 168, 169, 170, 239

London branch of, 110–11, 114, 120, 179–83, 198, 232

under Lorenzo de’Medici, 4, 208, 213, 215, 218–20, 228–33

Lyon branch of, 229–31, 232, 233, 239

Milan branch of, 150, 172–73, 175, 181, 190, 220, 232

Naples branch of, 48, 50, 201, 219, 232

partners in, 38–39, 83, 111–12, 120

under Piero de’ Medici, 3–4, 156–57, 172–75

Pisa branch of, 118, 119, 120, 232

political power and, 83–84, 117–18

premises of, 34

profits made by, 38–39, 91, 99

registering of new branches of, 120

restructuring of, 170–71

Roman Church and, 47–48, 51–52, 91, 92, 93, 97, 113, 169, 224, 242

Rome branch of, 47–48, 52, 61, 64, 83, 91, 92, 110–11, 167, 168, 169, 172, 175, 180, 190, 198, 219, 224, 232

rules for branches of, 49–50, 63

St. Cosma’s Day holiday observed by, 133

Sassetti as general manager of, 170–71, 180–81, 228, 232

“secret books” of, 50

Sforza and, 106, 117–18, 146, 150

shareholders of, 49, 219

tax evasion and, 73, 82

Venice branch of, 48, 50–51, 63, 83, 91, 96, 98, 112, 116, 135, 146, 172, 201, 231, 232

Medici family, 2–5

Albizzi family’s political struggle with, 88–98

amount of bank profits taken by, 39

aristocratic presumptions of, 160–61, 170, 178, 246

church of, see San Lorenzo, Church of

common traits found in, 5

confiscation of wealth of, 4

currency exchange as source of wealth of, 40, 44

as dukes, 246

expulsion from Florence of, 234, 246