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

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 336 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-321) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498. Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498 Savonarola, Girolamo 1452-1498 Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498. Dominicans -- Italy -- Florence -- Biography. Reformers -- Italy -- Florence -- Biography Dominicans -- Italy -- Florence -- Biography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical. HISTORY. Politics and government Reformers Reformers -- Italy -- Florence -- Biography. Florence (Italy) -- History -- 1421-1737. Florence (Italy) -- Politics and government -- 1421-1737. Florence (Italy) -- Church history Florence (Italy) -- Biography Italy -- Florence Florence (Italy) -- History -- 1421-1737 -- Biography. Florence (Italy) -- Politics and government -- 1421-1737. Florence (Italy) -- Church history. Genre/Form collective biographies. Biographies Church history History Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book LC no. 2005031802 ISBN 1429420324 9781429420327 128084504X 9781280845048 0195177487 9780195177480

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