The Strozzi were one of the richest and most powerful families in Florence - their famous palace still documents this today - but due to the enmity with the Medici, the male family members were exiled for many years and decades. The history of the Strozzi family is a tale of emerging banking power, commercial rivalry, and economic ascent, but also a story of resistance against the dominance of the Medici from the early Renaissance to the eventual downfall of the Republic of Florence and the establishment of the Duchy in the 16th century. Ingeborg Walter's book tells the story of this extraordinary family, which managed to assert itself despite the exiles, rose to immense wealth, and at times even reached a reconciliation with the Medici.