Savonarola [[electronic resource] ] : the rise and fall of a Renaissance prophet / / Donald Weinstein

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781444203321
• Autore: Weinstein Donald <1926-2015.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2011
• ISBN: 1-283-33178-0; 9786613331786; 0-300-17848-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (352 p.)
• Disciplina: 282.092; B
• Soggetti: Reformers - Italy - Florence; Florence (Italy) Biography; Florence (Italy) Politics and government 1421-1737; Florence (Italy) Church history
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Usages -- Prologue -- Chapter 1. The Making of a Moralist -- Chapter 2. The Making of a Preacher -- Chapter 3. The Making of a Prophet -- Chapter 4. Florence and the Medici -- Chapter 5. The Magnificent Lorenzo -- Chapter 6. Bologna to Florence -- Chapter 7. Lo, the Sword of God! -- Chapter 8. The New Cyrus -- Chapter 9. Liberty! -- Chapter 10. The Ark and the Flood -- Chapter 11. Toward the New Jerusalem -- Chapter 12. The Virgin and the Republic of Virtue -- Chapter 13. The Pope Summons -- Chapter 14. Obstacles to the Spirit -- Chapter 15. Mobilizing the Children -- Chapter 16. I Can't Live without Preaching -- Chapter 17. The Tail Acquires a Head -- Chapter 18. Burning the Vanities -- Chapter 19. Excommunicated! -- Chapter 20. Defiance -- Chapter 21. Exodus -- Chapter 22. Trial by Fire -- Chapter 23. Despair and Hope -- Chapter 24. Silence -- Chapter 25. Echoes -- Chapter 26. Afterwords -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Girolamo Savonarola, the fifteenth-century doom-saying friar, embraced the revolution of the Florentine republic and prophesied that ; it would become the center of a New Age of Christian renewal and world domination. This new biography, the culmination of many decades of study, presents an original interpretation of Savonarola's prophetic career and a highly nuanced assessment of his vision and motivations.Weinstein sorts out the multiple strands that connect Savonarola to his time and place, following him from his youthful rejection of a world he regarded as corrupt, to his engagement with that world to save it from itself, to his shattering confession-an admission that he had invented his prophesies and faked his visions. Was his confession sincere? A forgery circulated by his inquisitors? Or an attempt to escape bone-breaking torture? Weinstein offers a highly innovative analysis of the testimony to provide the first truly satisfying account of Savonarola and his fate as a failed prophet.