How Wool Merchants Bought the Renaissance and Then Bought a Pope

How Wool Merchants Bought the Renaissance and Then Bought a Pope

The Medici began with dye-stained hands and a gift for arithmetic, then used the Church's own money to fund Brunelleschi, Donatello, and Michelangelo — buying the Renaissance into existence to launder the sins of their banking empire. The post How Wool Merchants Bought the Renaissance and Then Bought a Pope appeared first on History Collection.