Fire in the city  -  Lauro Martines

Savonarola and the struggle for the soul of Renaissance Florence

KORTE INHOUD

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-c...
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2006 Uitgever: Oxford University Press 336 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0195177487 ISBN-13: 9780195177480