作者:
Tim Parks 出版社: Profile Business 副标题: Banking, Metaphysics and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence 出版年: 2006-4-6 页数: 320 装帧: Paperback ISBN: 9781861977571
Machiavelli was disgusted:" One cannot affirm it to be peace where principalities frequently attack one another with arms; yet they cannot be called wars in which men are not killed, cities are not sacked, principalities are not destroyed, for these wars came to such weakness that they were begun without fear, carried on without danger and ended without loss." Without much loss of life and territory, that is. But not without the loss of huge sums of money. This is where Medici came in (查看原文)
“In short, the banker is back, he is revered, he wields unconsittutional powers, and he hasn't even broken the law. Such was and no doubt is the power of money." (查看原文)
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