03228nam 22006494a 450 991081251870332120200520144314.00-19-988430-71-280-84504-X0-19-803949-21-4294-2032-4(CKB)1000000000468240(EBL)271472(OCoLC)466425040(SSID)ssj0000155334(PQKBManifestationID)11156449(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000155334(PQKBWorkID)10112484(PQKB)11220363(MiAaPQ)EBC271472(Au-PeEL)EBL271472(CaPaEBR)ebr10160561(CaONFJC)MIL84504(OCoLC)760117141(FINmELB)ELB164240(EXLCZ)99100000000046824020051102d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierFire in the city Savonarola and the struggle for the soul of Renaissance Florence /by Lauro Martines1st ed.Oxford ;New York Oxford University Press20061 online resource (361 pages)0-19-532710-1 0-19-517748-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-321) and index.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; INDEXA 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, puritanicalReformersItalyFlorenceBiographyFlorence (Italy)History1421-1737Florence (Italy)Politics and government1421-1737Florence (Italy)Church historyFlorence (Italy)BiographyReformers945/.5105092BMartines Lauro163267MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910812518703321Fire in the City26787UNINA