num_pages: 320
description: A riveting new book about Savonarola, a lowly friar of Renaissance Florence, but also a charismatic preacher and the talk of all Italy in the 1490s when he called for the renewal of a corrupt Church and the purging of vile governments.
language: English
title: Scourge and Fire: Savonarola in Renaissance Italy
titlecomplete: Scourge and Fire: Savonarola in Renaissance Italy
genres: Religion, Biography, Italy, Politics, European History, Nonfiction, Medieval, Biography Memoir, History
ratings_count: 327
publisher: Pimlico Publishing Ltd