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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910812518703321
• Autore: Martines Lauro
• 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
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (361 pages)
• Disciplina: 945/.5105092; B
• 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