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

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

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Author / Creator:Martines, Lauro.
Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Description:1 online resource (xvi, 336 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps
Language:English
Subject:
Savonarola, Girolamo, -- 1452-1498.
Savonarola, Girolamo, -- 1452-1498.
Reformers -- Italy -- Florence -- Biography.
Dominicans -- Italy -- Florence -- Biography.
Politics and government.
Reformers.
Florence (Italy) -- History -- 1421-1737.
Florence (Italy) -- Politics and government -- 1421-1737.
Florence (Italy) -- Church history.
Florence (Italy) -- Biography.
Italy -- Florence.
Biographies.
Church history.
History.
Electronic book.
Biographies.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11149058
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ISBN:1429420324
9781429420327
128084504X
9781280845048
9780195177480
0195177487
9780195327106
0195327101
0195177487
9780195177480
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-321) and index.
Restrictions unspecified
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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 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 Girolamo 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. In fact, Savonarola emerges as a complex and subtle man: compassionate, wise, a poet and scholar, and even, at critical moments, a force for moderation. The friar, a mesmerizing preacher, set the city afire with his message of Christian charity wedded to republican ideals. It is this reality--of Savonarola as both religious and civic leader--that Martines captures in all its complexity, showing how he 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.
Other form:Print version: Martines, Lauro. Fire in the city. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006 0195177487
Standard no.:9780195177480
Table of 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.

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