Popes and Bankers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Popes and Bankers write by Jack Cashill. This book was released on 2010-03-15. Popes and Bankers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. AMIDST THE WRECKAGE OF FINANCIAL RUIN, PEOPLE ARE LEFT PUZZLING ABOUT HOW IT HAPPENED. WHERE DID ALL THE PROBLEMS BEGIN? For the answer, Jack Cashill, a journalist as shrewd as he is seasoned, looks past the headlines and deep into pages of history and comes back with the goods. From Plato to payday loans, from Aristotle to AIG, from Shakespeare to the Salomon Brothers, from the Medici to Bernie Madoff—in Popes and Bankers Jack Cashill unfurls a fascinating story of credit and debt, usury and “the sordid love of gain.” With a dizzying cast of characters, including church officials, gutter loan sharks, and even the Knights Templar, Cashill traces the creative tension between “pious restraint” and “economic ambition” through the annals of human history and illuminates both the dark corners of our past and the dusty corners of our billfolds.
God's Bankers
God's Bankers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook God's Bankers write by Gerald Posner. This book was released on 2015-02-03. God's Bankers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. New York Times Bestseller: A “deeply researched” exposé of the money and the clerics-turned-financiers at the heart of the Vatican (Chicago Tribune). From a master chronicler of legal and financial misconduct, a magnificent investigation nine years in the making, God’s Bankers traces the political intrigue of the Catholic Church in “a meticulous work that cracks wide open the Vatican’s legendary, enabling secrecy” (Kirkus Reviews). Decidedly not about faith, belief in God, or religious doctrine, this book is about the church’s accumulation of wealth and its byzantine financial entanglements across the world. Telling the story through two hundred years of prelates, bishops, cardinals, and the popes who oversee it all, Gerald Posner uncovers an eyebrow-raising account of money and power in one of the world’s most influential organizations. God’s Bankers is a revelatory and astounding saga marked by poisoned business titans, murdered prosecutors, and mysterious deaths written off as suicides; a carnival of characters from popes and cardinals to financiers and mobsters to kings and prime ministers; and a set of moral and political circumstances that not only clarify the church’s aims and ambitions, but reflect the larger tensions of more recent history. Posner also assesses Pope Francis’s potential to overcome the resistance to change in the Vatican’s Machiavellian inner court and rein in the excesses of its seemingly uncontrollable financial quagmire. “As exciting as a mystery thriller” (Providence Journal), this book reveals with extraordinary precision how the Vatican has evolved from a foundation of faith to a corporation of extreme wealth and power. “Reads like a sprawling novel, full of complex characters and surprising twists. . . . Readers interested in issues involving religion and international finance will find Posner’s work a compelling read.” —Library Journal “An extraordinarily intricate tale of intrigue, corruption and organized criminality. . . . Posner’s gifts as a reporter and storyteller are most vividly displayed in a series of lurid chapters on the American archbishop Paul Marcinkus, the arch-Machiavellian who ran the Vatican Bank from 1971-1989.” —The New York Times Book Review
The Pope, His Banker, and Venice
The Pope, His Banker, and Venice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Pope, His Banker, and Venice write by Felix Gilbert. This book was released on 1980. The Pope, His Banker, and Venice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a story of how men worked, intrigued, and made business deals in an Italy invaded by continental countries and England. It brings together diplomacy, war, business, and politics, juxtaposing differing institutional structures and political ways among Italy's city states, and bringing into focus the new men of the Renaissance.
Papal Banking in Renaissance Rome
Papal Banking in Renaissance Rome - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Papal Banking in Renaissance Rome write by Francesco Guidi Bruscoli. This book was released on 2007-01-01. Papal Banking in Renaissance Rome available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work is concerned with the activities of the Florentine merchants active in Rome during the mid-sixteenth century, and their connections and relations with the Apostolic Chamber, particularly during the pontificate of Pope Paul III.
Papal Banking in Renaissance Rome
Papal Banking in Renaissance Rome - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Papal Banking in Renaissance Rome write by Francesco Guidi Bruscoli. This book was released on 2017-03-02. Papal Banking in Renaissance Rome available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Benvenuto Olivieri was a Florentine banker active in Rome during the first half of the sixteenth century. A self made man without any great family patrimony, he rose to prominence during the pontificate of Pope Paul III, becoming involved with a variety of papal enterprises which allowed him to get to the heart of the mechanisms governing the papal finances. Amassing a considerable fortune along the way, Olivieri soon built himself a role as co-ordinator of the appalti (revenue farms) and became one of the most powerful players in the complex network that connected bankers and the papal revenue. This book explores the indissoluble link that had developed between the papacy and bankers, illuminating how the Apostolic Chamber, increasingly in need of money, could not meet its debts, without farming out the rights to future income. Utilising documents from a rich corpus of unpublished sources in Florence and Rome, Guidi Bruscoli unravels the web of financial connections that bound together Florentine and Genoese bankers with the papacy, and looks at how money was raised and the appalti managed.
