Fire in the city
Subtitle: Savonarola and the struggle for Renaissance Florence
By: Lauro Martines
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781429420327
Subjects: Politics and government; Historical; Church history; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY; Reformers; History; Dominicans; Biography; HISTORY
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-321) and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Chorus; title: Vile bodies: 1472-1490; title: The friar returns: 1490-1491; title: The wait: 1492-1494; title: Fear and loathing: November 1494; title: Holy liberty; title: Stamping out tyranny: 1494-1495; title: God and politics; title: Angels and enforcers: 1496-1498; title: The Pope and the friar: 1495-1497; title: The Savonarolan moment; title: Wailers and bigots; title: Excommunication: May-June 1497; title: Five executions: August 1497; title: Rome closes in; title: Foiled fire; title: The siege of San Marco: April 1498; title: Confessions of a sinner; title: Fire again: three executions: May 1498; title: The conscience of a city.