Savonarola : the rise and fall of a Renaissance prophet /

Savonarola : the rise and fall of a Renaissance prophet /

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Author / Creator:	Weinstein, Donald, 1926-2015, author.
Imprint:	New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2011.
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 379 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Savonarola, Girolamo, -- 1452-1498. Savonarola, Girolamo, -- 1452-1498. Dominicans -- Italy -- Florence -- Biography. Catholic Church -- Italy -- Florence -- History. Catholic Church. Dominicans. Reformers -- Italy -- Florence -- Biography. Politics and government Reformers. Florence (Italy) -- Biography. Florence (Italy) -- Politics and government -- 1421-1737. Florence (Italy) -- Church history. Italy -- Florence. Biographies. Church history. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11301675

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ISBN:	9780300178487 0300178484 1283331780 9781283331784 9786613331786 6613331783 9780300111934 0300111932
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-368) and index. English. Print version record.
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 confessionan 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.
Other form:	Print version: Weinstein, Donald, 1926- Savonarola. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2011 9780300111934

Table of Contents:

Making of a moralist
Making of a preacher
Making of a prophet
Florence and the Medici
The magnificent Lorenzo
Bologna to Florence
Lo, the sword of God!
The new Cyrus
Liberty!
The Ark and the flood
Toward the New Jerusalem
The virgin and the republic of virtue
The pope summons
Obstacles to the Spirit
Mobilizing the children
I can't live without preaching
The tail acquires a head
Burning the vanities
Excommunicated!
Defiance
Exodus
Trial by fire
Despair and hope
Silence
Echoes
Afterwords.