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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777792703321

Autore

Martines Lauro

Titolo

Fire in the city : Savonarola and the struggle for the soul of Renaissance Florence / / Lauro Martines

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2006

ISBN

0-19-988430-7

1-280-84504-X

0-19-803949-2

1-4294-2032-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (361 pages)

Disciplina

945/.5105092

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Soggetti

Reformers - Italy - Florence

Florence (Italy) History 1421-1737

Florence (Italy) Politics and government 1421-1737

Florence (Italy) Church history

Florence (Italy) Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-321) and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; AN X-RAY OF FLORENTINE GOVERNMENT; GLOSSARY OF TERMS; 1 Chorus; 2 Vile Bodies: 1472-1490; 3 The Friar Returns: 1490-1491; 4 The Wait: 1492-1494; 5 Fear and Loathing: November 1494; 6 Holy Liberty; 7 Stamping out Tyranny: 1494-1495; 8 God and Politics; 9 Angels and Enforcers: 1496-1498; 10 The Pope and the Friar: 1495-1497; 11 The Savonarolan Moment; 12 Wailers and Bigots; 13 Excommunication: May-June 1497; 14 Five Executions: August 1497; 15 Rome Closes In; 16 Foiled Fire; 17 The Siege of San Marco: April 1498; 18 Confessions of a Sinner; 19 Fire Again: Three Executions: May 1498; 20 The Conscience of a City; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

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 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 Girolamo 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