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Originally published in 1978 as an expanded form of a well-researched doctorate thesis, Dale Kent's The Rise of the Medici: Faction in Florence, 1426-1434 is a one-of-a-kind academic study which focuses on the complex system of political and personal relationships in place during the period when the Medici became the most powerful political party in Renaissance Florence.