Fire in the city : Savonarola and the struggle for Renaissance Florence /

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 Savonarola. Lauro Martines, whose decades of scholarship h...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Martines, Lauro
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Temas:
Savonarola, Girolamo, > 1452-1498.
Savonarola, Girolamo, > 1452-1498
Savonarola, Girolamo > 1452-1498
Dominicans > Italy > Florence > Biography.
1421-1737
Reformers > Italy > Florence > Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY.
Politics and government
Reformers
Florence (Italy) > History > 1421-1737.
Florence (Italy) > Politics and government > 1421-1737.
Florence (Italy) > Church history.
Florence (Italy) > Biography.
Florence (Italie) > Histoire > 1421-1737.
Florence (Italie) > Administration > 1421-1737.
Italy > Florence
Florence (Italy) > History > 1421-1737 > Biography.
collective biographies.
Biographies
Church history
History
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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