Fire in the City Savonarola and the Struggle for the Soul of Renaissance Florence

Name: Fire in the City Savonarola and the Struggle for the Soul of Renaissance Florence
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ISBN: 9780195327106

ISBN-10: 0195327101

ISBN-13: 9780195327106

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Authors: Lauro Martines

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A gripping and beautifully written narrative that reads like a novel, Fire in the City presents a compelling account of a key moment in the history of the Renaissance, illuminating the remarkable man who dominated the period, the charismatic Girolamo Savonarola. Lauro Martines, whose decades of scholarship have made him one of the most admired historians of Renaissance Italy, here provides a remarkably fresh perspective on Savonarola, the preacher and agitator who flamed like a comet through late fifteenth-century Florence. The Dominican friar has long been portrayed as a dour, puritanical demagogue who urged his followers to burn their worldly goods in "the bonfire of the vanities." But as…

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List price: $26.99
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/10/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 9.02" wide x 6.10" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Lauro Martines is an author and independent scholar who has taught history in Los Angeles, London, and Paris. Murtha Baca is head of the Standards and Vocabulary Programs at the Getty Research Institute.



Acknowledgements


List of Illustrations


An X-Ray of Florentine Government


Glossary of Terms



Chorus



Vile Bodies: 1472-1490



The Friar Returns: 1490-1491



The Wait: 1492-1494



Fear and Loathing: November 1494



Holy Liberty



Stamping out Tyranny: 1494-1495



God and Politics



Angels and Enforcers: 1496-1498



The Pope and the Friar: 1495-1497



The Savonarolan Moment



Wailers and Bigots



Excommunication: May-June 1497



Five Executions: August 1497



Rome Closes In



Foiled Fire



The Siege of San Marco: April 1498



Confessions of a Sinner



Fire Again: Three Executions: May 1498



The Conscience of a City


Notes


Bibliography


Index