Savonarola : the rise and fall of a Renaissance prophet / Donald Weinstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weinstein, Donald, 1926-2015.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498.

Savonarola, Girolamo.

Dominicans--Italy--Florence--Biography.

Dominicans.

Catholic Church--Italy--Florence--History.

Catholic Church.

Reformers--Italy--Florence--Biography.

Reformers.

Florence (Italy)--Biography.

Florence (Italy).

Florence (Italy)--Politics and government--1421-1737.

Florence (Italy)--Church history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-33178-0

9786613331786

0-300-17848-4

OCLC:

1024022554