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Guido Redi
Guido was born in Florence in Tuscany in the late seventeenth century but under the worst circumstances he was abandoned to the street as an urchin who had a telltale six fingers on his left hand. This will dog him the rest of his life. He is rescued by the Sisters of Clare and is taken to a doctor and his wife. He was home schooled by the doctors wife who was a linguist. He quickly accelerated his studies and was considered a prodigy from a very young age. Consequently he was fluent in reading and writing in all the romance languages. He was accepted into the University of Bologna the age of sixteen where he excelled in translating the ancient languages of Greek Latin and Hebrew. He finished his studies before his eighteenth birthday and returned to Florence. He was duped into following a man to Spain that he has unintentionally offended this starts his trek through Spain being pursued by the inquisition which eventually leads him the London where he begins his startling career. This book starts here and chronicles this climb to the heights of wealth and power just at the turn of the eighteenth century.
The Wealth and Poverty of Cities
This book provides both an accessible introduction to the economy of cities and an original perspective on what needs to be fixed if cities are to be places of economic opportunity and social cohesion.
