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Podcast: The EI Podcast
Episode: EI Weekly Listen — Wealth and poverty in Renaissance Florence by Antony Molho
Description: This celebration of wealth, its frequent elevation to an almost religious level, and its justification not only in terms of its social utility but also, and more remarkably, in personal terms, is one of the defining characteristics of the Florentine public culture and private ethos in the fifteenth century and beyond. Read by Leighton Pugh.Image: An opulent fresco in Renaissance Florence. Credit: Peter Horree / Alamy Stock Photo