Savonarola
Subtitle: the rise and fall of a Renaissance prophet
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: August 28, 2007
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780300111934
Subjects: Reference; Literary Criticism
Description: 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. --from publisher description.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: The making of a moralist; title: The making of a preacher; title: The making of a prophet; title: Florence and the Medici; title: The magnificent Lorenzo; title: Bologna to Florence; title: Lo, the sword of God!; title: The new Cyrus; title: Liberty!; title: The Ark and the flood; title: Toward the New Jerusalem; title: The virgin and the republic of virtue; title: The pope summons; title: Obstacles to the Spirit; title: Mobilizing the children; title: I can't live without preaching; title: The tail acquires a head; title: Burning the vanities; title: Excommunicated!; title: Defiance; title: Exodus; title: Trial by fire; title: Despair and hope; title: Silence; title: Echoes; title: Afterwords