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The burning of the vanities : Savonarola and the Borgia Pope / Desmond Seward.
Van Pelt Library DG737.97 .S46 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Seward, Desmond, 1935-2022.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498.
- Savonarola, Girolamo.
- Friars--Italy--Florence--Biography.
- Friars.
- Italy--Church history--15th century.
- Italy.
- Church history.
- Florence (Italy)--Politics and government--1421-1737.
- Florence (Italy).
- Italy--Florence.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 309 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stroud : Sutton, 2006.
- Summary:
- Desmond Seward tells the dramatic story of Savonarola, the visionary friar who terrified Renaissance Florence by his uncannily accurate prophesies of doom - especially of a new barbarian invasion from Charles VIII - and denounced Lorenzo the Magnificent as a tyrant and Borgia Alexander VI as an unworthy pope. Many years after death, this extraordinary man continues to be a cult figure.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [295]-299) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0750929812
- OCLC:
- 64555855
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