Scourge and Fire: Savonarola and Renaissance Italy by Lauro Martines

Scourge and Fire: Savonarola and Renaissance Italy

Lauro Martines

336 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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In the 1490s, with Florence at the height of its Renaissance glories, the most remarkable man in the city was a friar called Savonarola whose charismatic sermons mingled the fervour of religion with the ardour of republican politics. He was excomm...

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