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Fire in the city : Savonarola and the struggle for Renaissance Florence / by Lauro Martines.
LIBRA DG737.97 .M3 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Martines, Lauro.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498.
- Savonarola, Girolamo.
- Dominicans--Italy--Florence--Biography.
- Dominicans.
- Florence (Italy)--History--1421-1737.
- Florence (Italy).
- Florence (Italy)--Politics and government--1421-1737.
- Florence (Italy)--Church history.
- Reformers--Italy--Florence--Biography.
- Reformers.
- Italy--Florence.
- Florence (Italy)--Biography.
- Politics and government.
- Florence (Italy)--History--1421-1737--Biography.
- Local Subjects:
- Dominicans--Italy--Florence--Biography.
- Florence (Italy)--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Church history.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 336 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- "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 Girolamo 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 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 demagogue who urged his followers to burn their worldly goods in "the bonfire of the vanities." But as Martines shows, this is a caricature of the truth--the version propagated by the wealthy and powerful who feared the political reforms he represented. Here, Savonarola emerges as a complex and subtle man, both a religious and a civic leader--who inspired an outpouring of political debate in a city newly freed from the tyranny of the Medici. In the end, the volatile passions he unleashed--and the powerful families he threatened--sent the friar to his own fiery death. But the fusion of morality and politics that he represented would leave a lasting mark on Renaissance Florence. For the many readers fascinated by histories of Renaissance Italy--such as Brunelleschi's Dome or Galileo's Daughter, and Martines's acclaimed April Blood--Fire in the City offers a vivid portrait of one of the most memorable characters from that dazzling era."--Publisher's website.
- A gripping and beautifully written narrative that reads like a novel, this work 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.
- Contents:
- Chorus
- Vile bodies: 1472-1490
- The friar returns: 1490-1491
- The wait: 1492-1494
- Fear and loathing: November 1494
- Holy liberty
- Stamping out tyranny: 1494-1495
- God and politics
- Angels and enforcers: 1496-1498
- The Pope and the friar: 1495-1497
- The Savonarolan moment
- Wailers and bigots
- Excommunication: May-June 1497
- Five executions: August 1497
- Rome closes in
- Foiled fire
- The siege of San Marco: April 1498
- Confessions of a sinner
- Fire again: three executions: May 1498
- The conscience of a city.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-321) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Martines, Lauro. Fire in the city.
- ISBN:
- 9780195177480
- 0195177487
- 9780195327106
- 0195327101
- OCLC:
- 62281870
- Publisher Number:
- 9780195177480
- Online:
- Book review (H-Net)
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
- Publisher description
- Book review (H-Net)
- Additional Information at Google Books
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